Car parts can be made from carrot extracts

Two scientists, Dr David Hepworth and Dr Eric Whale, have come up with a new material extracted from carrots that is durable enough to replace everything from fishing rods to car parts. The new material is called Curran.

The material is billed as a revolutionizing performance product with unique strength and weight. Through a special process, nano fibres found in carrots are extracted and combined with high-tech resins enabling tough, durable components to be moulded to whatever shape, degree of stiffness, strength or lightness required.

Who would have thought that such a versatile material could have come from carrots, a common vegetable? Hit the jump to see the process which makes a vegetable into a fishing rod.

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