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Engineers often use high temperatures, pressures and polluting chemicals to make synthetic materials. By contrast, biology produces remarkable materials like wood and bone using widely available chemical resources in water and at ambient temperature. The ability of organisms to create materials under such mild processing conditions relies on the intricate biological machinery of living cells. Notably, natural selection processes have evolved such machinery for hundreds of millions of years to fulfill the demands of biological environments. In this context, we asked the question: ...

Optimizing devices like robotics hands requires fine control of the interface’s friction law. We recently proposed a generic surface design strategy to prepare dry rough soft interfaces having predefined relationships between normal and friction forces. Such metainterfaces...

Establishing seamless connections between the physical and digital worlds is essential for the development of smart societies, enabling circular industrial processes, and advancing personalized healthcare. Achieving this vision requires the integration of unobtrusive, autonomous sensor systems into both the environment and the human body. However, traditional bulky and rigid electronics are ill-suited for such applications, highlighting the need for lightweight, biocompatible, and adaptable alternatives. This talk explores the...