New National Science Award to Investigate Living Biotic-Abiotic Materials
Valentine Lab receives a new Collaborative Grant to study Living biotic-abiotic materials with temporally programmable actuation
Professor Valentine is awarded a National Science Foundation grant through the DMREF program to design and create next-generation materials inspired and empowered by biological cells. The goal of the collaboration is to create self-directed, programmable and reconfigurable materials – using biological building blocks including proteins and cells – that are capable of producing force and motion. This research could pave the way for future materials applications ranging from self-propulsive materials to programmable micro-robotics, wound healing and dynamic prosthetics.
Collaborators include: Rae Robertson-Anderson at the University of San Diego, Jennifer Ross at Syracuse University, Moumita Das at Rochester Institute of Technology, and Michael Rust at the University of Chicago.
