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Adaptive hydrogels with spatiotemporal stiffening using pH-modulating enzymes
Natascha Gray, Zoe Grämiger, André R. Studart +1
Biological systems achieve adaptive mechanical responses through reaction-diffusion processes that couple chemical wave propagation to structural transitions. Although synthetic hy…
Living porous ceramics for bacteria-regulated gas sensing and carbon capture
Alessandro Dutto, Anton Kan, Zoubeir Saraw +3
Microorganisms hosted in abiotic structures have led to engineered living materials that can grow, sense and adapt in ways that mimic biological systems. Although porous structures…
Directed Evolution of Microorganisms for Engineered Living Materials
Julie M. Laurent, Ankit Jain, Anton Kan +5
Microorganisms can create engineered materials with exquisite structures and living functionalities. Although synthetic biology tools to genetically manipulate microorganisms conti…
3D Printed Architectured Silicones with Autonomic Self-healing and Creep-resistant Behavior
Stefano Menasce, Rafael Libanori, Fergal Coulter +1
Self-healing silicones that are able to restore the functionalities and extend the lifetime of soft devices hold great potential in many applications. However, currently available…
Magnetic manipulation of superparamagnetic colloids in droplet-based optical devices
I. Mattich, J. Sendra, H. Galinski +5
Magnetically assembled superparamagnetic colloids have been exploited as fluid mixers, swimmers and delivery systems in several microscale applications. The encapsulation of such c…
Giving life to robotic skins
Ahmad Rafsanjani, Fergal B. Coulter, André R. Studart
The skin of humanoid robots often lacks human tactility and the inherent self-repair capability of biological tissues. Recently, researchers have grown a living, self-healing skin…
Three-dimensional Printing of Mycelium Hydrogels into Living Complex Materials
Silvan Gantenbein, Emanuele Colucci, Julian Käch +5
Biological living materials, such as animal bones and plant stems, are able to self-heal, regenerate, adapt and make decisions under environmental pressures. Despite recent success…
Carbon ablators with porosity designed for enhanced aerospace thermal protection
Erik Poloni, Florian Bouville, Alexander L. Schmid +8
Porous carbon ablators offer cost-effective thermal protection for aerospace vehicles during re-entry into planetary atmospheres. However, the exploration of more distant planets r…
Hierarchical porous materials made by stereolithographic printing of photo-curable emulsions
Nicole Kleger, Clara Minas, Patrick Bosshard +3
Porous materials are relevant for a broad range of technologies from catalysis and filtration, to tissue engineering and lightweight structures. Controlling the porosity of these m…
Programming Soft Robots with Flexible Mechanical Metamaterials
Ahmad Rafsanjani, Katia Bertoldi, André R. Studart
The complex behavior of highly deformable mechanical metamaterials can substantially enhance the performance of soft robots.
Design principles for textured multi-layered composites using magnetically assisted slip casting
Hortense Le Ferrand, Florian Bouville, André R. Studart
In many natural multi-layered composites, such as in the dactyl club of Stomatopods or the shell of bivalve mollusks, the defining functional and structural properties are determin…
Processing of dense bio-inspired ceramics with deliberate microtexture
Hortense Le Ferrand, Florian Bouville, André R. Studart
The architectures of biological hard materials reveal finely tailored complex assemblies of mineral crystals. Numerous recent studies associate the design of these local assemblies…
Magnetically-Assisted Slip Casting of Bioinspired Heterogeneous Composites
Hortense Le Ferrand, Florian Bouville, Tobias P. Niebel +1
Composites are often made heterogeneous in nature to fulfill the functional demands imposed by the environment, but remain difficult to fabricate synthetically due to the lack of a…
Drying of complex suspensions
Lei Xu, Alexis Bergés, Peter J. Lu +5
We investigate the 3D structure and drying dynamics of complex mixtures of emulsion droplets and colloidal particles, using confocal microscopy. Air invades and rapidly collapses l…