diatomaceous

You should try diatomaceous earth, it gets rid of anything with an exoskeleton and is even food safe.

Do you know whether there have there been any commercial products that try to replicate the diatomaceous/razor like mechanism?

Food grade diatomaceous earth is somewhat safe, and you can sprinkle some around the corners of shelves.

You need to have a bedframe with countable legs, a bug-proof plastic mattress cover, and a bag of diatomaceous earth.

Then I dusted my bedding, living room furniture, and floors with diatomaceous earth (leaving everything very, very dusty).

You simply zip the cover over your mattress, and put a 1cm layer of diatomaceous earth around the feet of your bedframe.

They are forced to walk down your bedframe, and over the layer of diatomaceous earth, which causes fatal ruptures in their carapace.

I think a lot of people are familiar with diatomaceous earth, though maybe not what's in it.

I created a perimeter around my room and bed with diatomaceous earth for a few weeks.

When originally reading about diatomaceous earth, I had read something about it acting like razor blades cutting through the exoskeleton.

My understanding is that diatomaceous earth [1] works in a similar way.

For those who don't understand, they are talking about diatomaceous earth [0].

Ultrasorb, Optisorb, or Blue Ribbon DE Premium Cat litter are brands to look for --- make sure it explicitly says "diatomaceous earth" or DE.

Nobel reasoned that it could be made much safer if it couldn't move around so much, and so he ordered a bunch of a locally-abundant porous rock substance and soaked that in the nitroglycerin (we would now say that the "diatomaceous earth" acts as a "stabilizer").

I don't believe they work in a similar way at all: in this case, the trichomes act as "hooks" going through the bug feed and keeping them stuck (but not killing them outside of leaving them to starve), diatomaceous earth "removes" the hydrophobic coating of chitin (absorbs the lipid/waxy layer making chitin more porous), dehydrating the bugs to death.

Diatomaceous earth is made out silicates, not crystalline silicon, which is what this is made out of.

Diatomaceous earth and asbestos are categorised as silicates, which is the oxide of silicon rather than the pure metal.

Diatomaceous earth alone contains around 10^6-10^7 frustules (the shell of a diatom) per gram.