3D-Printed Living Material Could Clean Water
A University of California San Diego team has developed an “engineered living material.” Watch this video to learn how the 3D-printed structure made of seaweed-based polymer combined with bacteria could offer a sustainable and eco-friendly solution to clean pollutants from water.
“What’s innovative is the pairing of a polymer material with a biological system to create a living material that can function and respond to stimuli in ways that regular synthetic materials cannot,” said Jon Pokorski , a professor of nanoengineering at UC San Diego who co-led the research.
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