Robust Self‐Regeneratable Stiff Living Materials Fabricated from Microbial Cells

In ‘living materials,’ microbes are makers

(2020) Robert F. Service   SCIENCE

Genetically Programmable Self‐Regenerating Bacterial Hydrogels

(2019) Anna M. Duraj‐Thatte et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Resilient living materials built by printing bacterial spores

(2019) Lina M. González et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Engineered E. coli Nissle 1917 for the delivery of matrix-tethered therapeutic domains to the gut

(2019) Pichet Praveschotinunt et al.   Nature Communications

Engineered Living Materials: Prospects and Challenges for Using Biological Systems to Direct the Assembly of Smart Materials

(2018) Peter Q. Nguyen et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Repurposing bacterial extracellular matrix for selective and differential abstraction of rare earth elements

(2018) Pei Kun R. Tay et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Biomimetic engineering of conductive curli protein films

(2018) Noémie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Programmable and printable Bacillus subtilis biofilms as engineered living materials

(2018) Jiaofang Huang et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Engineering the S-Layer of Caulobacter crescentus as a Foundation for Stable, High-Density, 2D Living Materials

(2018) Marimikel Charrier et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Biological Engineered Living Materials: Growing Functional Materials with Genetically Programmable Properties

(2018) Charlie Gilbert et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Programmable assembly of pressure sensors using pattern-forming bacteria

(2017) Yangxiaolu Cao et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Xerotolerant bacteria: surviving through a dry spell

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Stretchable living materials and devices with hydrogel–elastomer hybrids hosting programmed cells

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Synthetic Biogenesis of Bacterial Amyloid Nanomaterials with Tunable Inorganic–Organic Interfaces and Electrical Conductivity

(2016) Urartu Ozgur Safak Seker et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Engineered catalytic biofilms: Site-specific enzyme immobilization ontoE. colicurli nanofibers

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Bioinspired Reductionistic Peptide Engineering for Exceptional Mechanical Properties

(2015) M. B. Avinash et al.   Scientific Reports

Engineering Living Functional Materials

(2015) Allen Y. Chen et al.   ACS Synthetic Biology

Bioinspired structural materials

(2014) Ulrike G. K. Wegst et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Synthesis and patterning of tunable multiscale materials with engineered cells

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Strong underwater adhesives made by self-assembling multi-protein nanofibres

(2014) Chao Zhong et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Programmable biofilm-based materials from engineered curli nanofibres

(2014) Peter Q. Nguyen et al.   Nature Communications

Nanoindentation in Crystal Engineering: Quantifying Mechanical Properties of Molecular Crystals

(2013) Sunil Varughese et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Bacterial Cytoplasm Has Glass-like Properties and Is Fluidized by Metabolic Activity

(2013) Bradley R. Parry et al.   CELL

Nanoindentation for probing the mechanical behavior of molecular crystals–a review of the technique and how to use it

(2013) Upadrasta Ramamurty et al.   CRYSTENGCOMM

Structural Biological Materials: Critical Mechanics-Materials Connections

(2013) M. A. Meyers et al.   SCIENCE

Measuring the stiffness of bacterial cells from growth rates in hydrogels of tunable elasticity

(2012) Hannah H. Tuson et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

General relationship between strength and hardness

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Nanomechanics of functional and pathological amyloid materials

(2011) Tuomas P. J. Knowles et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Synthetic biology: applications come of age

(2010) Ahmad S. Khalil et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Engineering of a synthetic electron conduit in living cells

(2010) H. M. Jensen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Opportunities for an Ancient Material

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