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Engineer Helps Improve Plastic’s Potential Use in Body Implants

Christine Schmidt in the lab
Photo: Marsha Miller
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Christine Schmidt, associate professor of biomedical engineering, led the study published in Nature Materials that identified a biological material, or peptide, that will allow the plastic polypyrrole to be used to enhance nerve regeneration or other biological processes.