Scalable fabrication of biohybrid materials for environmental performance

动画材料具有适应和响应环境挑战的能力，目前提出了两种机制来实现动画材料。生物杂交结构将细胞包裹在非活体基质中，增加了固定的几何尺寸。通过这种方式，他们可以以某种方式调节材料的功能性能，甚至形成或组装复合材料本身。通过生物系统的整合，我们建筑环境的实质可以在二氧化碳吸收或污染修复、通过生物光伏发电或为生态系统服务创建微生物群增强绿色基础设施方面发挥积极作用。研究目的：这个跨学科项目旨在寻找和协调围绕设计的生命材料合成和制造的新技术。其目的是塑造与自动化功能一致的自我维持的生物系统，以实现分布式生物可编程的建筑环境。通过整合生物化学工程，设计和制造的方法，我们将创造与环境应用的宿主微生物财团兼容的新形式的生物反应器。目标是采用先进的制造方法来创造有生命的“超材料”——由此产生的特性既来自生物化学成分，也来自复合材料的内部几何结构和外表面形态。生物杂化材料的研究和新制造技术的研究。创建一个模型系统来检查生物混合材料的原位和非原位性能3。评估生物混合材料对环境的挑战，例如重金属的回收或有机废物的修复

Animate materials are capable of adapting and responding to environmental challenges Two mechanisms are currently proposed to realise animate materials. Biohybrid structures encapsulate cells within non-living matrices, adding a geometric dimension to immobilisation. In this way they can modulate the functional performance of the material in some manner, or even form or assemble the composite itself. Through the integration of living systems, the very substance of our built environment could perform active roles in carbon dioxide uptake or remediation of pollution, generation of electricity via biophotovoltaics or creation of microbiome-enhancing green infrastructures for ecosystem services. Aims of the Research:This interdisciplinary project seeks to purpose and coordinate new techniques around the synthesis and fabrication of living materials for design. The aim is to shape self-sustaining biological systems that are consistent with the affordances of automation to enable a distributed bio-programmable built environment. Through the integration of approaches from biochemical engineering, design and manufacturing we will create new forms of bioreactor compatible with hosting microbial consortia for environmental applications. The goal is to employ advanced fabrication methodologies for the creation of living "metamaterials"- whereby emergent properties derive from both biochemical composition, as well as the inner geometric structure and outer surface morphology of composites.Objectives:1. Survey of materials for the creation of biohybrid materials and investigation of of new fabrication techniques for their scale up2. Creation of a model system to examine in-situ vs ex-situ performance of a biohybrid material3. Evaluate the biohybrid material to an environmental challenge e.g. recovery of heavy metals or remediation of organic wastes