The new material mimics human articular cartilage.
"Cartilage is tricky," says senior author Dr. Hongbin Li, a professor in the UBC department of chemistry. "
Dr. Li and his team engineered a new method for stiffening a soft protein gel without sacrificing its toughness, by physically tangling together the chains of a particular protein that make up the gel's network. The outcome was a gel with some pretty neat properties. It could resist compression at the same level as actual articular cartilage and could rapidly recover its original shape after compression.
The scientists however noted that they needed to balance stiffness and softness as the stiffest gel did not work as well.
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