This video features the lecture of Prof. Andrew Lo discussing mechanics as an enabling tool in bioinspired materials and biological interactions of nanomaterials on March 28, 2016. The MIT CEE Distinguished Seminar Series, launched in 2015, is supported by the CEE Department and the Chiang C. Mei Funds and was founded in honor of Prof. Chiang C. Mei to provide a vibrant forum for highly distinguished speakers to share their research with the CEE, MIT, and local community. More on the series can be found here: dss.mit.edu