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DNA is a robust biological material that can survive unscathed for tens of thousands of years, as evidenced by the isolation of genetic material from archaeological finds of bones of long-extinct animals.
It's such a robust material and all the effects were so pronounced".
This process has led to the formation of a remarkably robust hybrid material that confers exceptional protection to live cells against sheer stresses and contamination in a diverse range of applications.
Hence, core-shell QDs are a highly flexible and robust material system that allow for investigating mode competition in QD-metamaterial systems.
Silk proteins self-assemble into mechanically robust material structures that are also biodegradable and non-cytotoxic, suggesting utility for gene delivery.
It has proved difficult to find a material that is stable, robust, electrically insulating, sticks firmly both to copper and to silicon, and does not react with them.
Still, they needed a foundation material that was "cheap, widely available and chemically and mechanically robust". So they went with ordinary woven cotton fabric.
The new hybrids are isolated as robust, pure materials that display intense absorption and emission in the mid-visible region.
As cooling and warming rates have a crucial influence on the viability of vitrified cells [ 34, 35], it will be important to identify robust film materials that have high thermal conductivity and are protective against invasive pathogens, as well as improving cooling and rewarming methods.
