Materials scientists are cooking up environmentally friendly polymers from natural sources like silk, plant fibers and whole algae. Economics and acceptance remain hurdles. By Boyce Upholt / Knowable ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: “The ability to harness and adapt cellular machinery to produce non-biological polymers would, in essence, bring synthetic materials into the realm of biological ...

Biomimetic polymers are synthetic materials designed to mimic the structure and function of natural biological polymers such as proteins, DNA, and polysaccharides. These materials leverage the ...