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ENGINEERED LIVING MATERIALS

Living building blocks

Nature Materials volume 21, pages 382–383 (2022)Cite this article

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A prototypical biocomposite block comprising a blend of bacteria, fungi and feedstock can be assembled into human-sized, living structures with self-healing and environmental sensing capabilities.

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Fig. 1: Engineering of sensing and responsive biomaterials.

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