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Hard Pollen: “Practically Indestructible Materials”

Pollen represents one of nature’s most durable materials, which can be easily obtained at low cost. We explore pollen as a natural alternative to polymer synthesis and focus our research on pollen processing and utilizing pollen-based materials in various fields such as drug delivery, food technology, tissue engineering, and beyond.  

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Mayorga-Martinez CC, Fojtů M, Vyskočil J, Cho NJ, and Pumera M

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"Pollen-Based Magnetic Microrobots are Mediated by Electrostatic Forces to Attract, Manipulate, and Kill Cancer Cells." 

Advanced Functional Materials, 2022: 2207272.

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Hwang Y, Kim M K, Zhao Z, Kim B, Chang T, Fan TF, Ibrahim MSB, Suresh S*, Lee C H*, and Cho NJ*

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(* denotes equal corresponding authors)

"Plant-Based Substrate Materials for Flexible Green Electronics." 

Advanced Materials Technologies, 2022: 2200446.

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Zhao Z, Deng J, Tae H, Ibrahim MS, Suresh S*, Cho NJ*

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"Recyclable and Reusable Natural Plant-Based Paper for Repeated Digital Printing and Unprinting." 

Advanced Materials, 2022: 2109367.

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“Pollen paper that you can print on and 'unprint'.” Nanowerk, 05 April 2022
“Scientists develop a recyclable pollen-based paper for repeated printing and ‘unprinting’.’’ News 8Plus, 05 April 2022
“Scientists develop a recyclable pollen-based paper for repeated printing and ‘unprinting’.” Tech Tropical, 05 April 2022
“Scientists develop a recyclable pollen-based paper for repeat printing.” Techno Grafy, 05 April 2022
“Pollen paper that you can print on and ‘unprint’.” ApkPart, 05 April 2022

“Scientists Develop A Recyclable Pollen-Based Paper For Repeated Printing And ‘Unprinting’ — ScienceDaily.” Verve Times, 05 April 2022
“novel!Reusable "pollen paper" to protect information security.” INFNews, 08 April 2022

“NTU scientists say their eco-friendly reusable pollen-based paper could be alternative to conventional paper.” Today online, 05 April 2022

“Scientists develop a recyclable pollen-based paper for repeated printing and ‘unprinting’.” Fooshya, 05 April 2022

“Scientists develop paper from sunflower pollen that can be ‘printed’ and reused – DesignTAXI.com.” BusinessNews, 6 April 2022

“Scientists Develop A Recyclable Pollen-Based Paper For Repeated Printing And ‘Unprinting’. "The PN, 5 April 2022

“Recyclable pollen-based paper for repeated printing and ‘unprinting’.” Innovations Report, 5 April 2022

“Scientists develop a recyclable pollen-based paper for repeated printing and ‘unprinting’.” Today Headline, 6 April 2022

“3 BRILLIANT MINUTES: Paper from pollen.” Wbay, 7 April 2022

“Pollen paper that you can print on and ‘unprint’.” NTU, 5 April 2022

“Pollen-based paper can be ‘unprinted’. ” The Engineer, 8 April 2022

“NTU scientists develop pollen-based paper that can be reused several times.” CNA, 6 April 2022

“NTU scientists say their eco-friendly reusable pollen-based paper could be alternative to conventional paper.” Head Topics, 5 April 2022

“Sunflower pollen used to create chemically erasable, rewritable paper.” New Atlas, 5 April 2022

“Scientists develop a recyclable pollen-based paper for repeated printing and ‘unprinting’.” Science Daily, 5 April 2022

“Scientists develop a recyclable pollen-based paper for repeated printing and 'unprinting'.” Tech Xplore, 5 April 2022

“花粉から「再利用可能な」紙を開発 シンガポールの研究者が発表.” Sputnik (Japan), 7 April 2022

“L’incredibile carta al polline di girasole che si stampa, de-stampa, ristampa.” Futuro Prossimo(Italy),7 April 2022

“南大研究团队研发可多次重复使用的花粉纸。” 8 word, 5 April 2022

“꽃가루로 만든 종이에 인쇄하고, 지우고, 재사용한다” ZDNetKorea, 6 April 2022

“봄철 불청객 꽃가루… 친환경 종이로 ‘화려한 변신’”. 매경헬스, 5 April 2022

“조남준 교수, 친환경 종이로 변신한 꽃가루… 컬러인쇄하고 지우고 8번 재사용”. 서울경제, 6 April 2022

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Shi Q, Ibrahim MSB, Zhang X, Hwang Y, Chin H, Chen S, Tan WS, Li H, Song J*, Cho NJ*

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"Unraveling  the  distinct  germination  processes  of  sporopollenin-based  pollen  grains  and  spores  through  morphological  analyses  upon  natural  nano-architectonics  process."

Applied Materials Today, 2022, 27:101471.

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Zhao Z, Kumar J, Hwang Y, Deng J, Ibrahim MSB, Huang C, Suresh S*, Cho NJ*

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(* denotes equal corresponding authors)

"Digital Printing of Shape-Morphing Natural Materials."

PNAS, 2021, 118 (43).

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“Shape-Morphing Natural Materials Printed Digitally.” AZO Materials, 26 Oct 2021 
"NTU Singapore scientists develop self-folding natural plant material for ‘intelligent’ green products.” EurekAlert, 18 Oct 2021
“Scientists develop self-folding paper that can be used as ‘intelligent’ green products.” Techcircle, 19 Oct 2021
“NTU Singapore scientists develop self-folding natural plant material for ‘intelligent’ green products.” Scienmag, 19 Oct 2021
“NTU Creates Paper-Like Plant Material That Fold Itself into New Shapes.” Technology Times, 20 Oct 2021

“A self-folding plant-based material that could form ‘intelligent’ green products.” NTU, 19 Oct 2021
“NTU team creates paper made of pollen that folds on its own into boxes, straws.” Sqfeed Journal, 22 Nov 2021
“The NTU Team Creates Pollen-Based Paper that Folds Itself into Boxes, Straws, Environmental News and Featured Articles.” UK Digitala, 21 Nov 2021
“New Natural Plant Material Can Self-Fold into ‘Intelligent’ Green Products.” Asia-Pacific Biotech News, 21 Nov 2021
“NTU team creates paper made of pollen that folds on its own into boxes, straws.” Asia News Day, 21 Nov 2021
“NTU team creates paper made of pollen that can be used to make boxes, straws etc.” Zureli, 21 Nov 2021
“NTU Creates Paper-Like Plant Material That Fold Itself into New Shapes.” Technologytimes, 20 Oct 2021
“NTU team creates paper made of pollen that folds on its own into boxes, straws.” Redhot, 21 Nov 2021
“NTU team creates paper made of pollen that folds on its own into boxes, straws.” The Straits Times, 22 Nov 2021
“[The Straits Times] NTU team creates paper made of pollen that folds on its own into boxes, straws.” Korean Scientists and Engineers Association in Singapore, 22 Nov 2021
“NTU 校长参与！自折叠天然植物材料研发成功。“狮城新闻, 25 Oct 2021
“NTU 校长参与！自折叠天然植物材料研发成功。“搜狐新闻, 25 Oct 2021​

 
 
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Chen S, Shi Q, Jang T, Ibrahim MSB, Deng J, Ferracci G, Tan WS, Cho NJ*, Song J*

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"Engineering Natural Pollen Grains as Multifunctional 3D Printing Materials."

Advanced Functional Materials, 2021, 2106276.

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‘’Scientists turn pollen into 3D printing ink for biomedical applications.’’  Science Dail,  25 Aug 2021 

‘’3D printing powered by pollen for tissue engineering and drug delivery.’’ Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, 25 Aug 2021

‘’Scientists make ink for 3D printing from pollen.” Advanced Science News, 26 Aug 2021

"Sunflower pollen used as 3D-printable bio-ink.” 3D Natives, 27 Aug 2021

“Pollen developed into 3D printing Ink for biomedical applications.” 3D Printing Progress, 27 Aug 2021

“NTU Singapore scientists turn pollen into 3D printing ink for biomedical applications.” Mirage News, 26 Aug 2021

“Using pollen for 3D printing.” Mirage News, 26 Aug 2021

“Sunflower pollen may find use in a better, stronger 3D-bioprinting ink.” New Atlas, 25 Aug 2021

“Pollen-based bioink heralds new potential for bioprinting drugs.” 3D Print, 30 Aug 2021

“S. Korean scientists develop 3D printing ink from sunflower pollen.” EconoTimes, 1 Sept 2021

“Singapore turns pollen into 3D printing ink for biomedical applications.” BioSpectrum, 26 Aug 2021

“Sunflower pollen may be the answer to high-quality 3D printing ink.”