"Former University of Maryland and Baltimore Ravens tight end Matt Furstenburg knows all about catching footballs with popular tacky gloves. He also knows that the tackiness doesn't last, so he turned to the University of Maryland chemical and bimolecular engineering department for answers.

And being that we’re talking about Baltimore, then-students Chanda Arya, now with his doctorate, and Kevin Diehn, were already involved in research with a polymer derived from crab shells".