The influence of substrate and ethanol treatment on properties and quantitative analysis of retention of recombinant spider silk coatings
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The X_Heal Toolkit: Navigating Temporal and Dynamic Self-Healing Processes in Living Materials
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Microbial Biomineralisation in Living Artefacts for Regenerative Ecologies: An Overview and Design Pathways
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Nextskins publications
Seasonal Biodesign: Real-world Studies with Living Artefacts for Urban Biodiversity
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Societal implications of self-healing engineered living materials: insights from a co-design study
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Bacterially grown living materials with resistant and on-demand functionality
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SubtiToolKit: a bioengineering kit for Bacillus subtilis and Gram-positive bacteria
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Living Artefacts for Regenerative Ecologies
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Living Therapeutic Skin (LTS): Design Opportunities and Challenges of On-Skin Living Artefacts
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On-body biodesign: exploring the human body’s role in designing with living organisms
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Leveraging the Versatile Properties of Bacterial Spores in Materials
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Surfacing Livingness in Microbial Displays
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On the Habitabilities of Bacterial Cellulose for Living Artefacts
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Slowpoke: An Automated Golden Gate Cloning Workflow for Opentrons OT‑2 and Flex
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Designing Living Artefacts for Multispecies Interactions
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Living artefacts for regenerative ecologies
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Background publications
Dr. Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam
Scalable bacterial production of moldable and recyclable biomineralized cellulose with tunable mechanical properties.
Dr. Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam
Bioprinting of regenerative photosynthetic living materials.
Dr. Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam
Bioproduced polymers self-assemble with graphene oxide into nanocomposite films with enhanced mechanical performance.
Prof. Markus Linder
Recombinant protein condensation inside E. coli enables the development of building blocks for bioinspired materials engineering – Biomimetic spidersilk protein as a case study.
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Prof. Markus Linder
Self-Assembled Hydrophobin Protein Films at the Air-Water Interface: Structural Analysis and Molecular Engineering.
Prof. Markus Linder
Biomimetic composites with enhanced toughening using silk-inspired triblock proteins and aligned nanocellulose reinforcements.
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Prof. Tom Ellis
Living materials with programmable functionalities grown from engineered microbial co-cultures.
Prof. Tom Ellis
Bacterial cellulose spheroids as building blocks for 3D and patterned living materials and for regeneration.
Prof. Tom Ellis
Komagataeibacter Tool Kit (KTK): A Modular Cloning System for Multigene Constructs and Programmed Protein Secretion from Cellulose Producing Bacteria.
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Prof. Dr. Elvin Karana
Material Driven Design (MDD): A Method to Design for Material Experiences.
Prof. Dr. Elvin Karana
Living Artefacts: Conceptualizing Livingness as a Material Quality in Everyday Artefacts.
Prof. Dr. Elvin Karana
Flavorium: An Exploration of Flavobacteria’s Living Aesthetics for Living Color Interfaces.