12.08.2024
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at ETHZ have modified bacteria with UV light to produce more cellulose. The basis for this is a new approach, which generates thousands of bacterial variants and helps select the most productive.
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X-ray nanotomography
Unlocking the secrets of nanoscale networks
23.07.2024
An international team of researchers, including from the NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials, has used advanced imaging techniques to achieve a high-resolution three-dimensional visualization of topological defects…
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Bioinspirierte Nanosensoren zur Krebserkennung
17.01.2023
Die Früherkennung und Diagnose von Krebs im Frühstadium verbessert die Wirksamkeit der Behandlung und die Überlebensrate der Betroffenen erheblich. Wissenschaftler der Universität Fribourg haben bioinspirierte…
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ERC grant
European funding to help find order amid chaos
28.03.2019
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials Principal Investigator, Professor Ullrich Steiner (Soft Matter Physics, Adolphe Merkle Institute), has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research…
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Spectral
New mechanism opens door to more vivid colors
13.09.2018
Researchers from the NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials and Yale-NUS College in Singapore have discovered a novel color-generation mechanism in nature, which if harnessed, has the potential to create cosmetics…
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Attractive
Blue halo helps bees find flowers
18.10.2017
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute, along with colleagues at the University of Cambridge, and Kew Royal Botanical Gardens, have demonstrated that many types of flowers…
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Collaboration
NCCR and US researchers partner to develop bio-inspired projects
21.09.2017
NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials researchers, along with colleagues from the United States, have been awarded two grants from the US and Swiss National Science Foundations that will allow them develop functional…
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