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Biobased

Best of 2018: Growing furniture in mass-production

Published 5 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Originally published on 15 April 2018 Perhaps you have grown your own vegetables, herbs, or even your own lampshade made of mycelium, but have you ever grown a chair? Rather than using traditional methods, or ...

Best of 2018: Edible plates made from wheat bran to replace disposable tableware

Published 5 years ago by Sigrid | 2 responses

Originally published on 22 January 2018 Disposable tableware is very convenient when you have many guests, or hate doing the dishes. However, especially plastic tableware contributes to a lot of waste. To counter this problem, ...

Innovation

3D printing rubber robot jellyfish to monitor the reef

Published 5 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University and the US Office of Naval Research developed soft robotic jellyfish to monitor the reefs, 3D printed from rubber. The team used the shape of the moon jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) ...

3D printing with fibre-reinforced ice

Published 5 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

Students at the Technical University Eindhoven created the first 3D printed grid-shell from fibre-reinforced ice. A team at the TU Eindhoven has been researching fibre-reinforced ice, also known as pykrete, for the past five years. ...

Technology Transfer

Shoes made with material from the automotive industry

Published 5 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

For high performance material manufacturer Low & Bonar, Dutch designer Joris de Groot used techniques and material from the automotive industry to design shoes. De Groot developed the shoes for the Low & Bonar’s In4nite ...

Innovation

The future of Architecture: an interview with Ben van Berkel

Published 5 years ago by Sigrid | no responses

During our annual trade fair MaterialDistrict Rotterdam (formerly Material Xperience), architect Ben van Berkel and Filippo Lodi of architectural firm UNStudio and UNSense will represent the sector Architecture. Materials related to new technologies are always recognisable in Van ...