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Self-assembly

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Self-assembly Living systems provide compelling evidence that multi scale, adaptive architectures can be built simply by letting their smallest parts self-organize as dictated by their intrinsic properties. With a comprehensive understanding of the forces...

Bionanointerfaces

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Bionanointerfaces Cells of all types take cues from the surfaces they encounter in their environment. The cells extract any or all of the mechanical, chemical, spatial, and even temporal information from the surface, but which features they read and how...

Crystal Growth

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Crystal Growth Using only simple salts from the soil or water and only themselves as factories, living organisms from bacteria to sea sponges to mammals construct an endless variety of mineral architectures exquisitely patterned in 3D across the macro-...

Biological Engineering Principles

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Biological Engineering Principles The level of control that organisms exercise over the materials properties of structural inorganic biomaterials is unparalleled in modern engineering. Even more tantalizing is the organisms’ ability to form...

Slippery Surfaces

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Slippery Surfaces Unwanted surface interactions are a limiting factor nearly everywhere liquid is handled or encountered: they create drag in transport systems, trigger blood clotting, nucleate aircraft icing, and promote biofouling. Despite intensive...

SMARTS: Self-regulating Artificial Material Systems

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Living organisms exhibit unique homeostatic abilities, maintaining tight control of their local environment through inter-conversions of chemical and mechanical energy and self-regulating feedback loops organized hierarchically across many length scales...

Reversible Switching of Surface Wettability

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As exemplified by the water-repellent surfaces of lotus leaves, rose petals, water striders’ legs, and cicadas’ wings, arrays of nanobristles can keep materials dry by acting as a shield that prevents water from infiltrating past the bristles’ tips. Based...

Submerged HAIRS actuated by pH

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Applications for environmentally responsive surfaces are numerous, but many require the system to work while submerged in fluid. Like cilia and other natural counterparts, dynamic surface structures operating underwater can potentially sweep away...