With the “many-headed” slime mold Physarum polycelphalum having been voted the
unicellular organism of the year 2021 by the German Society of Protozoology, we are …

Nature serves as an abundant wellspring of inspiration for crafting innovative adhesive
materials. Extensive research is conducted on various complex forms of biological …

Synovial fluid (SF) is the complex biofluid that facilitates the exceptional lubrication of
articular cartilage in joints. Its primary lubricating macromolecules, the linear polysaccharide …

The aquatic environment holds a vast source of organisms that provide numerous
opportunities to bioprospect new molecules. Notably, fish are producers of an epidermal …

Designing yield stress fluids to exhibit desired functional properties is an integral challenge
in many applications such as 3D printing, drilling, food formulation, fiber spinning …

Hagfishes defend themselves from gill-breathing predators by producing large volumes of
fibrous slime when attacked. The slime's effectiveness comes from its ability to clog …

When attacked, hagfishes produce a soft, fibrous defensive slime within a fraction of a
second by ejecting mucus and threads into seawater. The rapid setup and remarkable …

Hagfish slime is a unique predator defence material containing a network of long fibrous
threads each∼ 10 cm in length. Hagfish release the threads in a condensed coiled state …

The defense mechanism of hagfish against predators is based on its ability to form slime
within a few milliseconds. Hagfish slime consists of two main components, namely mucin …

The different functionalizations of the naturally occurring mucin glycoproteins shown in this
thesis aim at creating modified biomacromolecules for novel applications in medicine …