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  • Perspective
    | Open Access

    The design and manufacture of materials that replicate the form, function, and sustainability of biological solutions remains difficult. Here, key challenges and promising approaches to materials development informed by biology are identified.

    • Devi Stuart-Fox
    • , Leslie Ng
    •  & Wallace W. H. Wong
  • Article
    | Open Access

    Enzymes are effective at chemically converting low-value biomass to technological materials. Here, an ancestral lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase enzyme is used to synthesize chitin nanocrystals, which are used as a matrix for cell growth and to create conducting graphene oxide bioinks.

    • Leire Barandiaran
    • , Borja Alonso-Lerma
    •  & Raul Perez-Jimenez