Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute develop new method to kill pathogenic bacteria without antiobiotics or chemicals.
Biotechnology
Functionalizing substrate surfaces to improve tissue engineering
Researchers investiage the effect of mussel-inspired polydopamine functionalization on the behavior of skeletal myoblasts.
Organic solar cells build on biodegradable, recyclable substrates
Efficient solar cells can be fabricated using natural substrates derived from plants such as trees.
Book Review: Biomimetic Approaches for Biomaterials Development
Houman Savoji and Michael R. Wertheimer of the École Polytechnique de Montréal review new publication in biomimetics.
Fuel from the Sun
Professor Geoff Ozin on his “super leaf” challenge – producing fuel by matching nature.
Video Interview: Christopher Barner-Kowollik
We talk to Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik, head of the Macromolecular Architectures group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
How can black carp crush hard snail shells?
Mollusk shells are well known to have excellent mechnical properties, but a species of carp – Mylopharyngodon piceus – lives on them. How?
New carbon nanotube aerogel with cheap materials
Ultralight, flexible, fire-resistant carbon nanotube aerogels fabricated from bacterial cellulose.
Nanoscale biomaterials: cutting edge bone therapy
New work seeks to control the growth mechanisms of calcium phosphate nanobiomaterials of monetite.
Swimming Microbots: Self-propelling Catalytic Micromotors Follow a pH Gradient
Scientists have developed autonomous catalytic microrobots that swim towards a specified target with a speed of 20 body length per second.
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