Bio-inspired materials—borrowing from nature's playbook

Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - 08:32 in Physics & Chemistry

Nature provides myriad examples of unique materials and structures developed for specialized applications or adaptations. An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory is trying to unlock the secrets that organisms use to build such complex structures so that power can be used to create materials not found in nature and not capable of being synthesized by conventional means.

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