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ArticleMaterials today. Bio2023

Ultra-lightweight living structural material for enhanced stiffness and environmental sensing.

Heechul Park, Alan F Schwartzman, Tzu-Chieh Tang, Lei Wang, Timothy K Lu

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Article in Materials today. Bio, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Importance of Being Imperfect: Structure and Function of Bacterial Amyloid.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. Beneficial applications of biofilms.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Heechul ParkSynthetic Biology Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Alan F SchwartzmanDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Tzu-Chieh TangSynthetic Biology Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Lei WangSynthetic Biology Center, Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Timothy K LuSynthetic Biology Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural materials such as bone, wood, and bamboo can inspire the fabrication of stiff, lightweight structural materials. Biofilms are one of the most dominant forms of life in nature. However, little is known about their physical properties as a structural material. Here we report an

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Amyloid fibril-producing bacterial biofilmCarbon nanotube-enhanced stiffnessHeavy-metal sensing materialLiving material with engineered genetic circuitsUltra-lightweight structural material

Identifiers

PMID36504543
PMCPMC9729073

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