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Recent advances in the synthesis of functional materials by engineered and recombinant living cells
1WACKER-Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, 85747 Garching bei München, Germany. malte.winnacker@makro.ch.tum.de.
Soft Matter
|September 26, 2017
Abstract:
At the interface of materials science and synthetic biology, several concepts were recently developed for the production of functional materials by living cells. Selected recent strategies for this are highlighted here with a focus on bioactive, electronic and fluorescent materials.
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