Recent Advances in Living Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Natural living systems often exhibit dynamic functionalities for sensing, actuating, regenerating, repairing and energy harvesting. The emerging field of living materials aims to exploit the advantages of living systems for the design of novel functional materials.

This Special Issue will highlight the innovations in designing, processing, fabricating and applying living materials. Biohybrid materials integrating living elements including, but not limited to, bacteria, fungi, algae, microalgae, cyanobacteria and mammalian cells with non-living elements including, but not limited to, polymers, hydrogels and self-assembled structures will be considered.

I look forward to receiving original research papers and short communications at the interface of living and non-living materials.

Dr. Han Sol Kim
Guest Editor

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