Call it beetle guard: Bug-based coating could neutralize toxins

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Chemical engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a material, which uses the African Stenocara beetle's action of using its wings to capture vapor molecules to herd them into a droplet that rolls into its mouth, leading to a range of products that manhandle fluids. The researchers are trying to implant compounds in the runoff channels that could neutralize chemical and biological agents as they are repelled by military clothing or that could kill bacteria collected on hospital surfaces.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Chemical Engineers, Beetles

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Angela Belcher

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Angela Belcher, material scientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has pioneered the use of custom-evolved viruses in synthesizing nanoscale wires and arrays. Her greatest success has come from the M13 bacteriophage.

Achievements and awards, Bacteriophages, Belcher, Angela

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Connections to an untethered future

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The concept and development of wireless electricity or WiTricity through the air has been given the SciAm 50 Trends in Business, Policy and Research Award.

Electric power supply, Physicists, Cellular communications, Soljacic, Marin

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