If you've ever created a snowflake by folding, cutting and unfolding a piece of paper, you've practiced the art of kirigami.

Spider silks are increasingly gaining interest for potential use as biomaterials in tissue engineering and biomedical applications. Owing to their facile and versatile processability in native and ...

Biomaterials with unique properties have emerged with the potential for advances in areas such as heart valve prostheses, precise drug delivery systems, and tissue engineering. Rosalyn Abbott, PhD, ...

The appeal of hydrogels in regenerative medicine begins with a deceptively simple physical observation: soft tissues of the ...

The research conducted within the department is in the broad areas of bioinstrumentation and imaging, biomaterials, tissue engineering and regeneration, and biomechanics. We work in close ...

Hydrogels are promising candidates for tissue repair. Non-invasive delivery of hydrogel patches involving high strains and deformations requires mechanical robustness and complex material design. Here ...

What are Tissue Engineering Scaffolds? Tissue engineering scaffolds are three-dimensional structures designed to support cell growth, migration, and differentiation for the regeneration of damaged or ...

Tissue engineering combines principles of materials science, cell biology and engineering to restore, replace or enhance biological tissues. Central to this endeavour are biomaterials, which serve as ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo A. Ameer has been elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering ...

A study published in the journal MedComm – Biomaterials and Applications, led by Dr. Xiaojing Wang from the Department of Oral Implantology at The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, focuses on ...

This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research in support of this Gordon Research Conference titled "2013 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Gordon Research Conference ...

Tissue engineering is an interdisciplinary field that combines principles from engineering, biology, and materials science to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain, or improve tissue ...