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Synchronized manufacturing of a bioinspired structure with a hierarchical vascular network.
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Mayank Garg, Nancy Sottos, Jeff Moore, and Phillipe Guebelle
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Developing self-healing materials is nothing new for Nancy Sottos, lead of the Autonomous Materials Systems Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
You re so vein: Scientists discover faster way to manufacture vascular materials
Urbana, IL | Posted on May 14th, 2021
Drawing inspiration from biological circulatory systems such as blood vessels or the leaves on a tree University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have worked on developing vascularized structural composites for more than a decade, creating materials that are lightweight and able to self-heal and self-cool.