Karen Hinkley

University of Washington

Projects

Mechanisms for Self Healing in Gastropods: Lessons From Biology, a Case Study of Two Species, Lavigeria grandis and Nucella lamellosa

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Karen Hinkley

Project type

Exploratory Research

In materials engineering, designs for materials are made to suit specific purposes, as a living organism evolves to fill a nitch in an ecosysytem. Unlike the biological world, materials cannot…