By Stephen Beech

Shellfish leftovers have been successfully turned into potentially lifesaving wearable health sensors.

The prototype electronic device using a material made from seafood waste - such as lobster shells - paves the way for safe, flexible and sustainable devices, according to the Australian research team.

They showed that chitosan - a naturally derived, biodegradable material recovered from seafood waste including Red Claw shrimp, Rock lobster and squid - can be used with a high-performance conducting polymer film to create a new class of wearable electronic transistors.

The team from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) say their research, published in the journal Small Structures , is a step towards the development of wearable biocompatible biosensors that co

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