Advances in hydrogel technology have unlocked unique and valuable capabilities that are
being applied to a diverse set of translational applications. Hydrogels perform functions …

Abstract Direct Ink Write (DIW) is a material extrusion Additive Manufacturing (AM) technique
that selectively extrudes material in a layer-by-layer fashion to form 3-dimensional parts …

Cellulose nanomaterials (CNMs), mainly including nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) and
cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), have attained enormous interest due to their sustainability …

Polymer networks are complex systems consisting of molecular components. Whereas the
properties of the individual components are typically well understood by most chemists …

Collagen is the most abundant extracellular matrix protein in food-producing animals.
Gelatin is partially degraded collagen. Collagen peptides refer to the peptides with specific …

Recent advances in the field of additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing, have garnered
serious interest for its potential to substitute time-consuming and costly subtractive and …

Consumption of plant-based meat analogues offers a way to reduce the environmental
footprint of the human diet. High-moisture extrusion cooking (HMEC) and shear cell …

This monograph presents a general mathematical theory for biological growth. It provides
both a conceptual and a technical foundation for the understanding and analysis of …

Soft materials are materials with a low shear modulus relative to their bulk modulus and
where elastic restoring forces are mainly of entropic origin. A sparse population of strong …

Despite recent advances to control the spatial composition and dynamic functionalities of
bacteria embedded in materials, bacterial localization into complex three-dimensional (3D) …