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Market Opportunity
Additive manufacturing of self-healing elastomers addresses a major unmet need in soft materials by enabling complex 3D architectures that can recover from damage rather than fail permanently. This capability opens significant opportunities in soft robotics, flexible electronics, structural composites, and biomedical devices, where...
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Market Opportunity
Lightweight lattice materials can provide great benefits in many applications such as airplanes, drones, and automobiles where a lighter structure can result in greater mechanical efficiency. The applications of 3D lattice structures have been significantly limited due to their inability in self-repairing of damages. Creating materials...
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Novel protein-based targeted drug delivery strategy
Potential application to treat several ocular disorders
Uses biocompatible, biodegradable and less immunogenic ELP-1 polymers
Abstract
USC scientists genetically engineered elastin-like polypeptides (ELP), which assemble multivalent nanoparticles at physiological temperature. The innovation was...
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