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- Renewable Black Pigment Brings Circularity to Black PackagingBlack remains a popular colour in packaging and product design. It conveys quality, contrast and strong brand identity. However, traditional black plastics present a…
- Carbon nanotube coating is the new blackMIT engineers developed a coating made from carbon nanotubes that makes for the blackest black, capturing at least 99.995 per cent of incoming light.…
- The world’s first T-shirt dyed with black algaeInnovative clothing company Vollebak, in collaboration with bioscience company Living Ink, launched what they say is the world’s first T-shirt that is dyed using…
- Studio Wynd: Using carbon fibres in furnitureWith their high tensile strength and low weight, carbon fibres are popular in aerospace, competition sports and the military. Studio Wynd uses carbon fibres…
- A ceramic planter made with biochar to trap carbonIn a collaboration between US-based companies OurCarbon, Break, and Sum Studio created a ceramic planter made with biochar, which traps greenhouse gasses. Developed by…
- Self-dyeing bacterial black leatherResearchers at Imperial College London have genetically engineered bacteria to grow animal- and plastic-free leather that dyes itself. Leather alternatives grown by bacteria is…
- Printing with coffeeDutch start-up CaffeInk developed an environmentally friendly ink as an alternative to black ink made from fossil-based carbon black pigment. Worldwide, coffee is the…
- Strengthening rubber with eggshells & tomato peelsAbout 30 per cent of a typical automobile tire is made of carbon black, a petroleum based filler that makes the rubber durable and gives…
- Concrete as low-cost energy storageResearchers at MIT developed a way to use concrete as energy storage, by mixing cement with carbon black. The process uses the way that…
- A sewage sludge-based material as pigment and additiveOurCarbon is a material made energy neutrally from organic waste like sewage sludge. As prove of concept, the company asked various designers and studios…
- Clothing that detects dangerous chemicals and pollutantsIt’s not always possible to detect if you’re exposed to harmful particles or radiation until it’s too late. In order to warn you in…
- Seeing the unseenA range of clothing designed by a self-styled ‘textile alchemist’ has the potential to warn the wearer of a number of environmental issues. The…
- Concrete That Stores Energy: MIT’s New Conductive MaterialResearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new form of concrete that can both support structures and store electrical energy.…
- Fibre composite pavilion is inspired by natureEngineers at the University of Stuttgart developed the BUGA Fibre Pavilion, which combines cutting-edge computational technologies with constructional principles found in nature, and is…
- 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…
- Limberlost Place Advances Tall Timber Construction in TorontoLimberlost Place is a ten-storey mass timber building on Toronto’s waterfront. Designed by Moriyama Teshima Architects and Acton Ostry Architects, the educational building aims…
- The world’s whitest paint to cool buildingsResearchers at Purdue University in the US created the whitest paint yet. Reflecting 98% light, the paint may cool buildings enough to reduce the…
- Coal: Post-Fuel considers coal as materialCoal: Post-Fuel, a project by designer Jesper Eriksson, considers an alternative, future use of coal as a material, re-evaluating the material’s image as dirty…
- On the road to a sustainable and durable futureVarious initiatives are experimenting with new materials to build more sustainable roads in the future. Many roads are made from asphalt or concrete, but…
- Tormenta collection consists of soluble clothing and 3D printed shoesLast month, Dutch fashion designer Jef Montes had a debut in Paris with his Tormenta collection, which balances on the borders of fashion and…
- Sustainable swimwear on International Bikini DayWith summer on the north hemisphere, it is time to take out your swimwear. In honour of International Bikini Day, today we look at…
- Graphene dress lights up when you breatheGraphene, an allotrope of carbon, is a wonderful, relatively new material with a lot of potential. It is ultrathin - only one atom thick…
- Air-Ink: writing with pollutionThroughout history, soot has been an important ingredient in ink, to make it black. Following this tradition, the company Graviky has developed an ink…
- Algae: tomorrow’s factoriesBio-polymer are on the rise: a good thing, as they have the advantages of hydro-carbon plastic but are also recyclable. As production increases, so…
