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Stronger concrete made with coffee grounds
Researchers at RMIT in Australia found that concrete can be made up to 30% stringer by replacing part of the sand with spent coffee grounds. Worldwide, 54 million tonnes of spent coffee grounds are generated ...
Read more >Lectures about Healthy Materials at ARCHITECT@WORK Amsterdam
On Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 September 2023, ARCHITECT@WORK will take place at Taets on the Hembrugterrein in Zaanstad. It will be the first edition of the event in the Amsterdam metropolitan region. Around the ...
Read more >Environmentally-friendly multicolour colourants inspired by butterflies
Researchers from the University of Central Florida (US) created the first environmentally friendly, large-scale and multicolour alternative to pigment-based colourants, inspired by butterfly wings. Common paints and colourants are pigment based, which means new molecules ...
Read more >A 3D printed toilet you never have to clean
Researchers at the Huazhong University of Science in China developed a 3D printed toilet that is so slippery nothing sticks to it, even after abrasion. Normally, there are things in a toilet that leave their ...
Read more >A bench made of chopsticks
Designers Pin Ning Huang, Mhyca Hsu and Shu Hsuan Peng designed a bench made of disposable bamboo chopsticks to call attention to the amount of waste generated. Disposable chopsticks are very common, with 4.5 billion ...
Read more >Fire-retardant mycelium material
Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, created a sustainable, scalable, and safe-fire-retardant material made of pure mycelium. Mycelium is the name for the root system of mushrooms. It is an up-and-coming material for insulation ...
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