Megan Valentine receives NSF DMREF award

Megan Valentine, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and CNSI Co-Director, joins a team of 5 engineers, biologists and physicists to create self-directed, programmable and reconfigurable materials. Using biological building blocks including proteins and cells the team will create materials capable of producing force and motion. This research could pave the way for future materials applications ranging from self-propulsive materials to programmable micro-robotics, wound healing and dynamic prosthetics.