Alzate Sanchez, Moore, Kersh, Sottos (IMAGE)

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Alzate Sanchez, Moore, Kersh, Sottos

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(From left) Postdoctoral research associate Diego Alzate Sanchez, Beckman Institute director Jeffrey Moore, associate professor of mechanical science and engineering Mariana Kersh, and UIUC Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at Nancy Sottos were part of an interdisciplinary team at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology that developed a chemical process to create foamed polymers with vascular systems, controlling the direction and alignment of the hollow channels to provide structural support and efficiently move fluids through the material.

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Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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