Jules Verne already offered him a second life in 1870. In “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”, he wrote “Soon I had put on my byssus clothes, made with the lustrous and silky filaments which attach the hams to the rocks
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a sort of very abundant shells on the shores of the Mediterranean.
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Nearly 150 years later, the idea of recycling this organic fiber resurfaced in the head of Robin Maquet, a recent graduate in engineering and materials sciences.
“I first worked on spider silk, and as I come from the bay of Mont Saint-Michel where mussels are cultivated, I became interested in byssus,” explains the entrepreneur, convinced of his potential.
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