/engineering/taxonomy/term/795/all en /engineering/article/news/future-ready-giant-nano-scale <p>Marta Cerruti talks glowingly of the colourized photos her students recently made. Most researchers would reserve what’s under their microscope for purely scientific inquiry. But while the Associate Professor of Materials Engineering works on ways to grow bones and reduce mineral build-up in arteries, she likes to also look at what’s going on aesthetically. A water colour painter, she recently encouraged her students to make colloidal dispersions, cells and extracellular matrix grown on scaffolds into pieces to admire. “They’re really, really pretty structures.”</p> Wed, 06 Jan 2021 01:14:25 +0000 Philip Fine 8491 at /engineering