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.
Laser scattering technique sheds light on the strength of spider silk
Non–invasive laser light scattering technique used to uncover the elastic properties of silk from four different spider species.
Book Review: Biomimetic, Bioresponsive, and Bioactive Materials
Professor Magnus Bergkvist, State University of New York, gives his perspective on this new publication.
Nanoscale materials derived from snails' teeth
Assistant professor David Kisailus studies the chiton, a marine snail found off the coast of California, to develop nanoscale materials for energy applications.
Shrinking manufacturing to the nanoscale
An industrial revolution on a minute scale is taking place in laboratories at The University of Manchester.
Micro- and Nanoengineering of Biomaterials for Healthcare Applications
The future of nano and micromaterials for healthcare, described by Ali Khademhosseini and Nicholas Peppas as part of an Advanced Healthcare Materials special issue.