An interdisciplinary team of University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientists and engineers has developed a first-of-its-kind, plant-inspired extrusion process that enables synthetic material growth. The new approach will allow researchers to build better soft robots that can navigate hard-to-reach places, complicated terrain, and potentially areas within the human body.
Researchers at Tufts University have developed a method to make silk-based materials that refuse to stick to water, or almost anything else containing water for that matter.
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed soft devices containing algae that glow in the dark when experiencing mechanical stress, such as being squished, stretched, twisted or bent. The devices do not require any electronics to light up, making them an ideal choice for building soft robots that explore the deep sea and other dark environments, researchers said.
A magnetic field has been discovered to improve the production of synthetic biogas, an essential tool in reducing the use of fossil fuels.
Vianode, a company owned by Elkem, Hydro and Altor, has decided to invest in its first industrial-scale plant for sustainable battery materials at Herøya in Norway.
Groupe RSL is the first company to produce a Canadian lab-grown diamond gem, at its production facility in Quebec. The company is currently producing large diamonds for the premium jewellery market. With sustainability at the heart of its approach, Groupe RSL believes that lab diamonds have the potential to significantly reduce the environmental impacts of diamond production.
A new paper in Bioprinting has explored the influence of cell density on the rheological properties of a proprietary silk fibroin-gelatin bioink. The research has been conducted by scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in India.
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Duke University have been using chips and pressure-driven pumps from Dolomite Microfluidics to develop and optimize a microfluidic flow-focusing technology (MFFT) platform.
In a paper recently published in the journal Biomaterials, researchers examined the challenges, synthesis techniques, and advances made in the development of decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM)-based biomaterials to imitate specific physical and biological characteristics of native tissue.
Scientists from Wuyi University’s School of Textile Materials and Engineering have published a new paper exploring the use of 3D printed biomaterials for preparing multifunctional scaffold materials for biomedical applications. Their research has appeared in the journal Composites Communications.
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