Engineered living materials for sustainability

B An, Y Wang, Y Huang, X Wang, Y Liu, D Xun… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in synthetic biology and materials science have given rise to a new form of
materials, namely engineered living materials (ELMs), which are composed of living matter …

Engineered living hydrogels

X Liu, ME Inda, Y Lai, TK Lu, X Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Living biological systems, ranging from single cells to whole organisms, can sense, process
information, and actuate in response to changing environmental conditions. Inspired by …

Insights into hierarchical structure–property–application relationships of advanced bacterial cellulose materials

Z Wu, S Chen, J Li, B Wang, M Jin… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is an environmentally friendly biomaterial that is widely investigated
because it possesses a unique hierarchical nanofiber network structure as well as …

Engineering living and regenerative fungal–bacterial biocomposite structures

RM McBee, M Lucht, N Mukhitov, M Richardson… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Engineered living materials could have the capacity to self-repair and self-replicate, sense
local and distant disturbances in their environment, and respond with functionalities for …

Developments in bioprocess for bacterial cellulose production

RR Singhania, AK Patel, YS Tseng, V Kumar… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) represents a novel bio-origin nonomaterial with its unique
properties having diverse applications. Increased market demand and low yield are the …

Embedding living cells with a mechanically reinforced and functionally programmable hydrogel fiber platform

R Peng, F Ba, J Li, J Cao, R Zhang, WQ Liu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Living materials represent a new frontier in functional material design, integrating synthetic
biology tools to endow materials with programmable, dynamic, and life‐like characteristics …

[HTML][HTML] A self-crosslinking, double-functional group modified bacterial cellulose gel used for antibacterial and healing of infected wound

Y Xie, K Qiao, L Yue, T Tang, Y Zheng, S Zhu, H Yang… - Bioactive materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellulose/chitosan composite, as a mature commercial antibacterial dressing, is an
important type of wound repair material. However, how to achieve the perfect compound of …

Fungal Engineered Living Materials: The Viability of Pure Mycelium Materials with Self‐Healing Functionalities

E Elsacker, M Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Engineered living materials (ELMs) composed entirely of fungal cells offer significant
potential due to their functional properties such as self‐assembly, sensing, and self‐healing …

Accelerating the design of pili-enabled living materials using an integrative technological workflow

Y Huang, Y Wu, H Hu, B Tong, J Wang… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Bacteria can be programmed to create engineered living materials (ELMs) with self-healing
and evolvable functionalities. However, further development of ELMs is greatly hampered by …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidic bioscaffolds for regenerative engineering

W Zhuge, H Liu, W Wang, J Wang - Engineered Regeneration, 2022 - Elsevier
The construction of biological scaffolds in vitro plays an important role in regenerative
engineering, which has always been the focus of research. The application of scaffold …