A new biomaterial for heart tissue regeneration, resembling live cardiac tissue in key characteristics, has been reported.
New materials for heart tissue regeneration
May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Fabricating smart composite materials with wrinkled microstructures
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MIT researchers mimic nature to produce interfacial composite materials with stimuli-responsive microstructures.
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Materials enlisted in the fight against bedbugs
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New York firm has developed an artificial, micro-fiber spider web to stop bedbugs, termites and other pests without the use of harmful and toxic chemicals.
Tunable Harvard thin films mimic tear drops
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Tunable material system designed by Harvard team is easily adaptable for diverse applications in fuel transport, textiles, optical systems, and more.
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Nanostructured surfaces with antibacterial properties
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute develop new method to kill pathogenic bacteria without antiobiotics or chemicals.
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Book Review: Biomimetic Approaches for Biomaterials Development
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Houman Savoji and Michael R. Wertheimer of the École Polytechnique de Montréal review new publication in biomimetics.
Fuel from the Sun
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Professor Geoff Ozin on his “super leaf” challenge – producing fuel by matching nature.
How can black carp crush hard snail shells?
March 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Mollusk shells are well known to have excellent mechnical properties, but a species of carp – Mylopharyngodon piceus – lives on them. How?
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Swimming Microbots: Self-propelling Catalytic Micromotors Follow a pH Gradient
February 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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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Nanoscale materials derived from snails’ teeth
January 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Assistant professor David Kisailus studies the chiton, a marine snail found off the coast of California, to develop nanoscale materials for energy applications.
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