MOMENTUM – Fran featured at Momentum magazine
Article at MOMENTUM
New Atlas – The biggest battery breakthroughs of 2020
Article at New Atlas by Nick Lavars
SINC – Shrimp shells to produce electrodes for large storage batteries
Article at the SINC news agency by Ana Hernando
SINC – A material inspired by a sea worm changes according to the environment
Article by Ana Hernando for SINC, the Spanish Agency for Scientific news, about the research on a material inspired by the jaw of Virens Nereis, a sand worm, and its application in soft robotics
Daily Mail – The gelatinous jaw of a sea worm inspires radical shape changing robots
The Nereis virens worm's jaw has a texture similar to gelatin - but if its environment changes, it can become hard. It has distinctive traits including a long body, many parapopdia (fleshy protrusions along the body) and blue head with two large pincer teeth.
MIT News – Worm-inspired material strengthens, changes shape in response to its environment
Article at MIT News, about the research on a material inspired by the jaw of Virens Nereis, a sand worm, and its application in soft robotics