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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"living materials"”.
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Engineering Biocatalytic And Living Materials
… compounds. In this presentation, biocatalytic materials were developed for water bioremediation utilizing encapsulated bacteria. Silica gels with encapsulated bacterial cells and spores were designed and optimized for cytocompatibility, porosity, and catalytic activity. As a case study, the …
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Living materials for the deployment of genetically engineered organisms
… an innovative and broad platform to engineer living materials and assemble them into functional devices. First, we assemble bacterial sensor communities into core-shell hydrogel structures to address the major challenge of biocontainment. Biosafety has become a major challenge for synthetic …
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Hybrid Living Materials : a digital fabrication platform for functional bacterial technologies
Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living materials such that the new material takes on the properties of both. Yet, the integrated control of both material and biological properties and their interactions remains challenging due to the complexity of natural …
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Rational Design and Scalable Production of De novo Autogenic Engineered Living Materials
… Production of De novo Autogenic Engineered Living Materials Hoda Mohsen Youssef Hammad General Audience Abstract This work introduces a new approach to creating "engineered living materials" that combine biology with advanced protein engineering to form dynamic, self-assembling structures. …
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Methods of cellular integration and techniques for improving encapsulated cell viability for the purpose of developing living materials and cell based bio-sensing materials
<p>Living materials offer the potential for detection-reporter systems based on living cells that are genetically tailored to sense target analytes with high levels of specificity and accuracy. A biotic or living material would allow the development of simple, hand held devices that could be …
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Design for the modern Prometheus : towards an integrated biodesign workflow
… is now possible to precisely modify and program living organisms to create products useful for medicine, fabrication, and more. These capabilities are today inspiring designers to consider, and design for opportunities associated with, the incorporation of biological and otherwise living matter …
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Beyond the Brick: Collaborations with a Sensing Microbial System in the Built Environment
… that involves working with invisible microscopic living systems. The very same living organisms that have helped shape the Earth’s ecosystems over billions of years. At present, designers have made efforts to reduce our dependency on carbon-intensive resources by integrating living organisms into …
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Towards engineering living functional materials
… biosensors for water contamination, and living fertilizers that promote plant growth. The grand challenge to bridge the concept-to-product gap is twofold: scalability and safe deployment. First, most model microorganisms cannot produce a macroscale matrix to sustain themselves as …
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HOW TO GROW A SPACESHIP: A Hybrid Living Material (HLM) Framework for Developing Technological Interfaces to Complex Living Systems
… the regenerative functions of our large-scale living systems are failing due to the Anthropocene. Our ability to productively and reciprocally mediate with complex living systems presents an intricate, urgent problem that necessitates hyper-interdisciplinary tools and expertise. While there are …
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Genetically Engineered Wound Dressing for Sensing and Treating Candida albicans Infections in Diabetic Foot Ulcers
… work, we developed hydrogel-based Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) as an antifungal wound dressing. Additionally, to increase the efficacy of engineered antifungal dressing, we develop a genetic drug releasing system in the presence of blue light. Thus, here we describe the fundamental …
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Tissue Engineered Textiles: ‘Can the integration of textile craft with tissue-engineering techniques lead to the development of a new materiality for future design applications?’
… idea that we would be able to manufacture with living materials. What was once seen as a radical notion is now being made a reality in laboratories around the world and is drawing ever greater interest from designers as they realise what the potential offered by biotechnology could mean for …
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Nature-Centered Materiomics: Experimental and Computational Design
… year 2020, the accumulated mass of anthropogenic materials now outweighs all living biomass on Earth. Industrial material production simultaneously contributes nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year, which in conjunction with solid waste accumulation and deterioration of …
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Water-based digital design and fabrication : material, product, and architectural explorations in printing chitosan and its composites
… cultures due to the biocompatibility of the materials used, pointing towards new possibilities for digital fabrication of living materials. Finally, the work advocates for the designer to play the role of a cohesive thinker, as well as a rigorous science and aesthetics explorer, able to seed …
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Bacteria - Hydrogel Interactions: Mechanistic Insights via Microelastography and Deep Learning
Bacteria-based cancer therapy (BBCT) holds immense promise in addressing the limitations in treatment of solid tumors. Bacterial strains used for BBCT are engineered to express therapeutics, facilitate precise navigation within the tumor microenvironment by enhancing bacteria's motility, chemotaxis …