Biomaterials
Featured Topics in Materials: Vacuum | Rheology | Materials Science | Crystallography | Thin films | all topics
Filter by: News | Articles | New to Market | Tools & Technology | Videos | Podcasts | Journal Articles | White Papers
Feb 24 | News
Princeton engineers have recently reported their success at making flexible, biocompatible rubber films for use in implantable or wearable energy harvesting systems. The material could be conceivably be used, for instance, to harvest energy from lungs and use it to run pacemakers without the need for batteries.
Feb 24 | News
Engineering researchers at the Univ. of Florida have crafted a flat surface that refuses to get wet. Water droplets skitter across it like ball bearings tossed on ice. They say they it is a nearly perfect hydrophobic surface, but not because the structure they have invented is "perfect".
Feb 12 | News
UCLA chemists report creating a synthetic "gene" that could capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, rising sea levels, and the increased acidity of oceans.
Feb 8 | News
Northwestern Univ. researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage in vivo and without the use of expensive growth factors. Minimally invasive, the therapy activates the bone marrow stem cells and produces natural cartilage. No conventional therapy can do this.
Jan 29 | News
Researchers have created self-healing polymers that could extend the lifetime of automotive oils. These polymers are suitable to add to lubricants and could maintain the physical properties of engine oils for longer, helping engine efficiency. Biological materials, such as skin, self heal following damage giving inspiration for these new materials.
Jan 12 | News
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created the strongest form of collagen known to science, a stable alternative to human collagen that could one day be used to treat arthritis and other conditions that result from collagen defects.
Jan 8 | News
Nanoscience has the potential to play an enormous role in enhancing a range of products. Scientists in this field have created a multitude of nano scale materials. However, despite their appeal, it has remained an astounding challenge to engineer the orientation and placement of these materials into the desired device architectures that are reproducible in high yields and at low costs, until now. A team of researchers from UC San Diego, have discovered that one way to bridge this gap is to use biomolecules.
12/22/2009 | News
Diabetics may soon be able to wear contact lenses that continuously alert them to variations in their glucose levels by changing colours - replacing the need to routinely draw blood throughout the day...
12/22/2009 | News
Regenerative medicine therapies often require the growth of functional, stable blood vessels at the site of an injury. Using synthetic polymers called hydrogels, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have been able to induce significant vasculature growth in areas of damaged tissue.
12/17/2009 | News
Why rely on electricity when bacteria will do the job with oxygen? Scientists at Argonne Lab and Northwestern University have harnessed a certain type of aerobic bacteria that, swimming in groups of several hundred, predictably turn toothed microgears in solution.