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- Self-healing ‘blood’ polymerWe’ve heard about self-healing materials and we can all imagine their uses. Now, a team from the US has developed a new self-healing polymer…
- Material Xperience part 4: Meet the future of products!We keep counting down! Only three more weeks until Material Xperience 2018! The trade fair will take place in Rotterdam Ahoy, the Netherlands. This year, we…
- A kitchen made of rattanKitchen design company J*GAST designed a kitchen made of Karuun, a material made from rattan. Rattan is a fast-growing palm, mainly growing in Indonesia.…
- Turning plastic bags into self-cooling fabricResearchers at MIT developed self-cooling fabrics made from polyethylene, a material commonly used in plastic bags. A plastic bag for a shirt hardly sounds…
- Stamps made from algae from the Venetian LagoonFor his project From Venice with Algae, designer Pablo Dorigo Sempere used Favini’s algae paper, made from Venetian algae, to design a stamp as…
- Low-tech household appliancesFor the project Matières Spécifiques, designer Maxime Louis-Courcier designed a low-tech and passive air conditioner and humidifier, using materials with singular physical characteristics and…
- Waste No More With This Super Slippery CoatingBest of 2015! (Originally published July 9, 2015) The days of wasting ketchup, mayonnaise and other substances that stubbornly stick to the insides of…
- 3D Printed Ceramic Walls Explore Low-Energy Urban CoolingResearchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have developed porous ceramic cubes that use evaporative cooling to reduce temperatures. Designed for indoor spaces…
- Helix: Recycled Origami Planter Grows With The PlantMade from recycled materials and engineered to ship flat-packed, Helix by Scottish design studio POTR demonstrates how material selection and structural design can reduce…
- Enzymatically Formed Carbon-Negative Material Offers a New Alternative to ConcreteResearchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have created a new structural material that could reshape sustainable design. The material, called Enzymatic Structural Material (ESM),…
- Clayplanter V1: Modular Clay-Based Vertical Planter for Sustainable Urban GreeningThe Clayplanter V1, developed by EcoTech Lab, is a modular vertical planting system that reimagines terracotta clay for sustainable urban agriculture. This innovative project…
- Polyester concrete, if not concrete, what else?Polyester concrete is a name commonly given to a composite that in effect is not concrete at all! Traditionally concrete is a composite of…
- What not to miss at Dutch Design Week 2022 part 2Dutch Design Week 2022 takes place from 22 to 30 October in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. MaterialDistrict lists some of the most innovative material projects…
- Ink calenderSpanish designer Oscar Diaz, based in London, has designed a calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the…
