Novel Methods for Biofabrication and Stimulation of Engineered Living Materials

Engineered living materials (ELMs) that contain photosynthetic microorganisms are promising low-energy platforms for biological carbon capture. Here, we report the fabrication and 33-day evaluation of fibrous alginate hydrogels embedding Chlorella vulgaris . Each construct contained 0.5 g dry algal biomass in an approximately 40 g hydrated material matrix and provided an effective surface area of…