Mechanically Tunable, Compostable, Healable and Scalable Engineered Living Materials.

ABSTRACT: Advanced design strategies are essential to realize the full potential of engineered living materials, including their biodegradability, manufacturability, sustainability, and ability to tailor functional properties. Toward these goals, we present mechanically engineered living material with compostability, healability, and scalability - a material that integrates these features in the form of a stretchable plastic that is simultaneously flushable, compostable, and exhibits the characteristics of paper. This plastic/paper-like material is produced in scalable quantities (0.5-1 g L^-1), directly from cultured bacterial biomass (40%) containing engineered curli protein nanofibers. The elongation at break (1-160%) and Young's modulus (6-450 MPa) is tuned to more than two orders of m

SUBMITTER: Manjula-Basavanna A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11557937 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature