Retracting tensegrity fabric

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Taking design cues from insects and shrimp, materials scientists at Harvard have created a material that’s as strong as aluminum alloy but only half the weight. The substance, dubbed “Shrilk” by its creators, is a material analog for insect cuticle--the material found in the exoskeletons of insects--and is the synthetic equivalent to one of nature’s strongest, lightest, and most interesting materials...

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Don Inbger, the father of cellular biotensegrity and the tensegrity model of cellular mechanics, has been awarded more than $3 million in funding from the NIH and FDA to develop a "Heart-Lung Micromachine" that will accelerate drug safety and efficacy testing...