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Dna Bound Avicel Network: The Beginnings Of A Self-Healing Material, Emily R. Coleman, Michael R. Ladisch, Eduardo Ximenes, Marissa Karp, Kathleen Howell, Seockmo Ku, Nathan Mosier, Iman Beheshti Tabar
Dna Bound Avicel Network: The Beginnings Of A Self-Healing Material, Emily R. Coleman, Michael R. Ladisch, Eduardo Ximenes, Marissa Karp, Kathleen Howell, Seockmo Ku, Nathan Mosier, Iman Beheshti Tabar
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Self-healing materials could potentially provide many improvements to engineering projects, including reduced maintenance and cost, and increased lifespan. It is desired to create a self-healing material proof of concept, which can then be altered for eventual application to the surfaces of small satellites with the goal of increasing material lifetimes. The intrinsic properties and abilities of DNA base pairing will be studied as a first test of proof of concept. The exploratory research reported in this short communication utilizes oxidation of small (50µm) particles of Avicel using TEMPO, followed by activation of Avicel particles via an EDC (1-Ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride) …