Nature is an inspirational school for materials scientists. Natural selection process puts a massive pressure on biological organisms giving rise to effective strategies for fabricating materials, which generally outperform ...

Angiogenesis is important in many diseases, such as diabetic wound healing, cancer and corneal neovascularization. Angiogenesis can be induced or inhibited by complex biological systems. Mimicking the complexity in natural ...

Self-assembly is a nature inspired novel engineering tool to build functional new generation of adaptable and complex biomaterials with variety of chemical and physical properties based on recent discoveries at the ...

Articular cartilage is a tissue that is continuously exposed to cyclical compressive stresses, but exhibits no capacity for self-healing following trauma. Cartilage has a dense extracellular matrix that is sparsely ...