{"id":729835,"date":"2020-07-29T14:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T12:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/material-lab\/material\/agar-plasticity\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:12:21","slug":"agar-plasticity","status":"publish","type":"material","link":"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/en\/insights\/materials\/agar-plasticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Agar Plasticity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-verpackung-auf-basis-von-meeresalgen\">Packing based on seaweed<\/h1>\n    <section class=\"info-slider alignfull\"\n             style=\"--items-per-row:2;\"  data-component=\"slider\" data-gap=\"0\" data-loop=\"\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n            <div class=\"slider__container swiper\">\n                <div class=\"slider__slides swiper-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t                        <div class=\"slider__slide swiper-slide theme--dark\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"teaser-format-contained teaser-format-contained--size-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-4-1000x1000.jpg\" class=\"teaser-format-contained__image\" alt=\"MILK MaterialLab Agar Plasticity Amam\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-4-1000x1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-4-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-4-720x720.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t                        <div class=\"slider__slide swiper-slide theme--dark\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"teaser-format-contained teaser-format-contained--size-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-3-1000x1000.jpg\" class=\"teaser-format-contained__image\" alt=\"MILK MaterialLab Agar Plasticity Amam\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-3-1000x1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-3-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-3-720x720.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t                        <div class=\"slider__slide swiper-slide theme--dark\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"teaser-format-contained teaser-format-contained--size-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-1-1000x1000.jpg\" class=\"teaser-format-contained__image\" alt=\"MILK MaterialLab Agar Plasticity Amam\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-1-1000x1000.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-1-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-MaterialLab-Agar-Plasticity-Amam-1-720x720.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n\t\t\t                            <div class=\"theme--dark\">\n                    <div class=\"slider__button-prev swiper-button-prev theme--dark\"><\/div>\n                    <div class=\"slider__button-next swiper-button-next theme--dark\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            \n\t\t\t             <div class=\"slider__scrollbar swiper-scrollbar\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t    <\/section>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ein-vielseitiger-rohstoff\">A versatile raw material<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Agar Plasticity<\/em> is a materials research project in which agar is being investigated as an alternative to synthetic plastics. Agar is a traditional Japanese food that is often used to make sweets. However, it is also used worldwide in the scientific and medical fields. It is mainly sold in a dried<br\/>state in the form of blocks, flakes and powder. Block agar has a porous, feather-like structure and is very light despite its volume &#8211; ideal properties for a packaging material.  The raw material is two types of red algae that grow and are harvested worldwide. The agar is extracted by boiling.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-sans-serif wp-block-paragraph\">Product name:<strong> Agar Plasticity<br\/><\/strong>Manufacturer:<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kosuke-araki.com\/agarplasticity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kosuke Araki<\/a><\/strong><br\/>Project status: <strong>Concept<\/strong> \/\/ Prototype \/\/ Ready for market \/\/ Ready for series production<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"is-style-sans-serif has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Peters, Sascha; Drewes, Diana: Materials in Progress. Innovations for Designers and Architects, Basel 2019, p. 93.<br\/>Image source: Kosuke Araki <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packing based on seaweed A versatile raw material Agar Plasticity is a materials research project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":625989,"template":"","material_status":[1202],"material_category":[1409],"material_type":[2089,2112,2113,2090,2105],"material_food":[1189,2083],"material_topic":[2139,1411,2084,1575,2087,2111,2085,1566],"class_list":["post-729835","material","type-material","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","material_status-concept","material_category-plastics-biopolymers","material_type-other-fibers","material_type-bio-based-polymers","material_type-biodegradable-polymers","material_type-organic-origin","material_type-other-polymers","material_food-other","material_food-various-foods","material_topic-alternative","material_topic-biodegradable","material_topic-circular","material_topic-compostable","material_topic-organic","material_topic-renewable-en-2","material_topic-non-packed","material_topic-zero-waste-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MILK. 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