Maria and Rob gave talks

Maria gave a talk titled "Frustrated Frustules: Geometric Frustration in Diatom Frustules" at the external pageGRC for Biomineralizationcall_made about her work on diatoms. To find out more about her and Eric's work on diatoms, see her recent paper here:

external pagehttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201014119call_made

Rob gave a talk titled "Soft, tough, highly water-swelling composites" at the external pageInternational Conference for Bioinspired Materials in Andermattcall_made. Simon's and Rob's manuscript concerning the topic can be found here:

external pagehttps://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17131call_made