A company called Evoware created a material from green algae(seaweed) and dammar-a non-timber forest product in indonesia and dammar generally recognized as safe and has been used as a food stabilizer, especially as an oil-weighting agent.
https://www.newplasticseconomy.org/innovation-prize/winners/evoware
This material dissolves when encountering hot water. It might not be a good option for what I want my material to do but I learnt a lot from this project about how to present your idea/research with infographics and diagrams to help articulate and illustrate the value of your project. Also this is another case of applications of algae based bioplastics as an alternative to synthetic plastics. Which reassured my observation of this emerging trend in the design field of creating biomaterials, more specifically bioplastics with algae.
RCA Graduate diploma 2019 