bio-inspired materials Archives

Professor Benedetto Marelli receives 2018 Young Investigator Award from Department of the Navy’s Office of Naval Research

February 21, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Paul M. Cook Career Development Professor Benedetto Marelli received the 2018 Young Investigator Award from the Department of the Navy’s Office of Naval Research. The award can be used to support laboratory equipment, stipends and scholarships, […]

Worms inspire new mutable materials for potential applications in soft robots

March 20, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Former CEE PhD student Chia-Ching Chou ’15, research scientists Fran Martin-Martinez and Zhao Quin, and CEE Department Head and McAfee Professor of Engineering Markus Buehler recently published research that uses protein from the strong and adaptable […]

Spinning a new version of spider silk

June 1, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

A team of researchers led by CEE Department Head Markus Buehler has succeeded in producing samples of spider silk, an exceptionally strong and resilient material, in the laboratory. The new synthetic fibers’ proteins were created by genetically modifying bacteria […]