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An installation made of scrap fabric

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Architectural firm Behin Ha designed a temporary installation made with scrap fabric material from a coated mesh fabric manufacturer. Coshocton Ray Trace, as the project is called, was located in Coshocton, Ohio in the US. ...

Carbon nanotube coating is the new black

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MIT engineers developed a coating made from carbon nanotubes that makes for the blackest black, capturing at least 99.995 per cent of incoming light. In the global race to develop the ‘colourest colour’, black and ...

Making medicine in artificial leaves with sunlight

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Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands developed a mini-reactor that, similar to leaves in nature, absorbs sunlight and drives chemical reactions, which can used to produce medicine. The researchers is based on ...

Vegan sneakers made from cannabis leaves

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German high-end sneaker brand Nat-2 presents vegan sneakers made with real cannabis leaves. After shoes made from stone, mycelium, milk, coffee, blood, and other remarkable materials, Nat-2 now used cannabis leaves for their sneakers. The ...

Algae and hydrogel coated tiles to clean water

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An interdisciplinary team at the Bio-Integrated Design Lab at the Barlett School of Architecture designed leaf-inspired clay tiles that clean water thanks to algae and a seaweed-based hydrogel. The small-scale manufacturing of textiles and jewellery ...

Taking the ‘con’ out of concrete

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In an effort to make the construction industry more sustainable, alternative concrete materials are becoming much more frequent. Below, we discuss some noticeable ones. Concrete consists of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with cement ...