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Professor Magnus Bergkvist, State University of New York, gives his perspective on this new publication.
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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.
Synthetic and biological nanoparticles combined to produce new metamaterials
Scientists from Aalto University, Finland, have succeeded in organising virus particles, protein cages and nanoparticles into crystalline materials.
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Materials will be marketed by Altuglas International as Plexiglas/Altuglas Rnew biopolymer alloys.
Mimicking porcupine quills to improve medical equipment
Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices.
A Change of Perspective: From Polymer Reaction Engineering to Polynucleotide Replication
A polymer reaction engineering look at the distribution of correct RNA sequence lengths.
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