April 2025
April 10th was a whole lot of fun as we helped organise workshops for #TUDelft Girls' Day as part of the nationwide girl's day activities! Girls from year 1-4 of high schools tried 3D printing chocolate on cookies with Saurav, made Prince Rupert drops with Chris, made magnetic slime with Sourav & Stefan and isolated DNA under the guidance of Jasper and Ingo. They did loads of other cool stuff like making toothpick composites and operating the Mars Rover prototype with other ASM colleagues. The goal was to motivate them for cool science careers at Aerospace! We learnt a lot from the students as well, and were spellbound by how advanced they were already. Hopefully, we sparked some curiosity and maybe even inspired a few future. Thanks a lot everyone who made it happen and Kunal! Looking forward to the next year already #WomenInSTEM ✨ ~IN
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Exciting start to April! Kunal was invited to the Fraunhofer IPA Stuttgart as the keynote speaker for the Additive Technology Forum 2025. Safe to say, the audience was surprised and intrigued by the unique approaches of SML towards developing novel hierarchical materials. Brownie points to April for giving us the surprise of seeing Kunal ditch the yellow hoodie for the suit! :P
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March 2025
New toy alert! SML got a new Shaper Origin hand-held CNC mill and Sourav, Silvan, and Jimmy had a great time trying out. Of course, we divided the work like true #academics:)!
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Congratulations are in order for our amazing post-doc Sourav Patranabish. He has won the R&KE International Global Engagements Fund 2024/25 from the host Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He will be travelling to the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and working with Dr. Laura Miller, Dr. Alex Wray, and Professor Apala Majumdar. The proposed duration would be tentatively 3 Weeks. His cool research topic would be Landau de-Gennes free energy modelling of liquid crystal polymers to identify optimal thermal conditions for 3D printing! Scottish Highlands await you Sourav :)
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The beginning of spring brought in some good cheer & excitement as the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering held the AE Masters event 2025.
Shaping matter lab brought back the beloved 3d printed chocolate on cookies from last year. SMLers answered questions on the lab's work and the Aerospace Structures & Materials Master track for BSc students from across the Netherlands.
Shaping matter lab brought back the beloved 3d printed chocolate on cookies from last year. SMLers answered questions on the lab's work and the Aerospace Structures & Materials Master track for BSc students from across the Netherlands.
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March has started on a great note with our beloved Jasper Groen getting a 'Go' in his Go no Go meeting to pursue his research on DNA data storage in high performance materials and applications. We can't wait to see what inspiring research you do in the next 3 years. In pics, you can see 10 microliters of DNA holding 700 GB of Data!
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A hearty welcome to Jimmy Cheng, our new PhD on researching bio-inspired grippers in collaboration with Dr. Jovana Jovanova's group. Jimmy is an impressive climber, hails from Hong Kong. He did his Msc at the Wageningen University where did pipeline integration for carrying out robotics pick-and-place tasks applied for agro-food use cases, including object detection, pose estimation and motion planning - but in cooler terms, Jimmy knows how to make Robots pick and butcher a good chicken and has lovingly earned the nickname -Chicken Guy at SML :) ! Welcome Jimmy :)
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February 2025
A hearty welcome to our new Post-Doc Winston Lindqwister! Winston joined us after a year at the faculty of Civil Engineering, after working with Dr. Martin Leseur. Working at intersection of material science and artificial intelligence, he is going to develop some cool multiscale mechanics models for our fungal engineered living materials. Winston hails from United States and is a cinephile - often catching a unique show at the Filmhuis Lumen Delft :)
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Congratulations on your super successful MSc graduation Aster Tournoy, with a cum laude! 🎉🥂Aster developed a fault detection system for small-scale 3D printers that can identify 12 common printing errors using computer vision with up to 97% accuracy. Read more here: In-Situ Real-Time Fault Detection and Identification of Fused Deposition Modelling 📸courtesy - Aster Tournoy
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February first week saw SML taking a well-deserved recharge on the slopes of the beautiful french alps!🏂 The beginning of a new tradition... With freshened heads we're now back to work! 👩🏼🔬🔬🧪🌱
How are wind turbine blades manufactured? Beginning of February, we had the opportunity to find out how the Suzlon group manufactures their wind turbine blades on a visit with the NXTGEN Hightech Composites 3-Zero Defect consortium. It was super enlightening, thanks to everyone involved!
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February 5,6 & 7 were full of electric innovation energy on the TU Delft NXTGEN Innovation days! Apart from several good talks and poster presentations over the 3 days, the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering welcomed a brand new unidirectional tape lab. The state of art lab will help researchers reach new heights in industry ready composite development.
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In January, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering festively welcomed our new laboratory plane, a Cessna F337F Skymaster, at Rotterdam The Hague Airport 🎉 The aircraft flew from Teuge to Rotterdam and flew above our faculty, where many colleagues were waving at the crew flying in the aircraft. Among them pilots Alexander in 't Veld and Hans Mulder.The aircraft has been acquired to allow innovations for making aviation more sustainable and reducing aircraft noise to be tested in practice. The aircraft will be used for research into for example quieter propellers, advanced propulsion systems and flying on hydrogen! Photos courtesy - TU Delft communications office.
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A hearty welcome to Gustavo Asai. Gustavo is for sure a hardworking researcher who likes a head start. He has already collaborated on a paper by SML researchers already before joining his PhD! When he is not kicking ass at being a researcher, he loves to travel for the sole intention of eating good food. Foodies are very welcome at SML :)
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Safe trip home Napat! 🚀Napat visited our group for the past six months to 3D print emulsions all the way from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. It was great having you around! We figure you will not miss the Dutch winter weather... ⛈️
December 2024
Kathrin Weiland, fondly known to us as 'Momo' bid farewell to the Shaping Matter Lab for greener pastures, after 2 amazing years. Momo worked on fungi composites and electrodes at SML and wrote this cool paper here. She is now teaching about sustainability assessments and biobased composites at Vienna. We really miss you Momo!
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Hearty congratulations to Harold Rutten for graduating from the Lab! Harold's MSc thesis delved on the impact of flow parameters on extrusion printing, which he could apply to tuning the anisotropy of materials like liquid crystal polymers.
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November 2024
November 11,2024 was a day of mega celebration for the Shaping Matter Lab, as it's first ever PhD candidate defended her thesis with a cum laude and is now officially Dr. Caroline Houriet. Caroline took the greatest inspiration from trees and applied the principles of tuning anisotropy to Liquid Crystal Polymers. 3D Printing allowed her to control the orientation of molecules of the LCP during manufacturing. Caroline is a true trailblazer for SML and will be dearly missed and inspire the next generation of PhDs in SML. Read her thesis 'Shaping Anisotropy
3D-printing of Liquid Crystal Polymers'.
3D-printing of Liquid Crystal Polymers'.
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Congrats Wouter for graduating from our lab! He has written a really cool thesis on 3D printing of bioinspired, bacteria-embedded ceramic composites, which gets us one step closer to strong, tough, and eco-friendly materials in complex geometries. In the presentation, he gave a beautiful demonstration on why abalone shell is stronger and tougher than chalk!
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October 2024
MSc graduate alert! Evelien Claassen of SML researched the spaceworthiness of 3D printed liquid crystal polymers & found that the material turns green upon exposure to space raditions. Safe to say she graduated with flying colours. Read more: https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202400571
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Spooking up science at the Shaping Matter Lab on the Halloween weekend! There were some eerie experiments, hauntingly good food & fun. Can you spot Kunal on the picture?
What's the link between 3D printed LCP and the HULK? ... turns out, they both turn green after getting exposed to radiations... but still they are as ever! Find out more in our latest paper from Caroline together with NematX and the European Space Agency. Check out the paper '3D Printing of Liquid Crystal Polymers for Space Applications' here: https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202400571
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Chinmayi Narasimha and Javier Urgiles from the faculty of IO & TPM, graduated with SML in a true interdisciplinary fashion over the summer. They worked on functionalization & LCA of mycelium composites for aerospace.
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September 2024
Huge congrats to fresh MSc graduate ir. David Beaumann from the Shaping Matter Lab. David defended his MSc thesis titled 'Material Characterisation of Mechanically Extracted Continuous Bamboo-Fibre Reinforced Polymers' on the morning of 25th September. Thanks Otto for chairing the session!
Last monday was refreshing one for some of us at SML as we met up with founders of the Floating Farm in Rotterdam to discuss developing building materials from manure at the farm & other circular projects for high-tech farm at the port of Rotterdam! Very moo-tivated to collaborate! Check them out!
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Last week we took the opportunity to play the Game of Unspoken Things in amazing weather - a refreshing experience that helps us conduct our research in an even more close and motivating way!
August 2024
Glad we could be of assistance printing some last-minute parts for the robotics workshop at the RoboValley! Always great to help out fellow engineers!
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July 2024
Check out our new paper '3D Printing of Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducers' in Advanced Materials Technologies. We developed a method to direct ink write functional ultrasound transducers. The d33.g33 of the composite is more than an order of magnitude higher than DIW piezo composites before, pretty cool right!
This approach enables cost-effective mass printing of piezoelectric ultrasound transducers, offering a pathway to scalable and bio-compatible manufacturing of intelligent structures with built-in sensing and actuation capabilities.
Congrats to Satya and the rest of the team!
This approach enables cost-effective mass printing of piezoelectric ultrasound transducers, offering a pathway to scalable and bio-compatible manufacturing of intelligent structures with built-in sensing and actuation capabilities.
Congrats to Satya and the rest of the team!
Check this out! In our freshly published review 'Engineered Living Composite Materials' in Composite Science & Technology we explore how living organisms can be used to create the next generation of sustainable and functional composite materials.
On the 14th of July, we hosted Aghna Mukherjee from ETH Zurich and learned about his brilliant work on mechanical instabilities and multifunctional structures . Looking forward to future visits and collaborations.
June 2024
Just published! Our latest review offers insights on the complex world of fungal signalling pathways and their potential in biobased material engineering. A great collaborative effort with Alexander Bismarck.
What an amazing semester with a group of brilliant BSc. students! We had fun while working on one of the most unique DSE project in Aerospace Faculty. Have you ever imagined a functional Strandbeest made out of End-of-Life wind turbine blades? They did!
Brilliant to have Prof Jan Wurm from KU Leuven over to share his amazing work on regenerative construction materials!! looking for a good read, check out “Making Trouble: Design and material activism” Inspiring stuff!
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Last week your favourite beachvolleyball team the Sand Monkeys managed to secure third place at the ASM sports day! Healthy mind in a healthy body.
May 2024
Free popcorn for the Aerospace Engineering undergrad study association 'VSV Leonardo da Vinci' lustrum celebration, Lets go!
Exciting News Alert! Thrilled to share that we've been granted an NWO-XS project to explore 3D printing of cell-based wood! Find out more about our project in collaboration with Wageningen University here.
Ioannis successfully defended his Master's thesis on optically transparent flax fiber composites It was a pleasure working with you! We wish you the best You can check out his work below https://tiny.cc/766yxz
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April 2024
This past month, we welcomed four new members to our group: Swaliha, Chintan, Sourav, and Mrinal We love to see the Shaping Matter Lab expand Looking forward to seeing all the cool things you will do!
Huge congrats to Shishi (Shiyun Tremp) on her MSc. graduation! She just rocked her thesis defense on 3D printing hydrogel vasculatures for Mycelium. Not just a brilliant scientist, but also a trend-setting fashion icon and designer. Cool jacket!
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March 2024
Congrats to @CarolineHouriet for her publication on 3D printing of Liquid Crystal Polymers in Advanced Materials It was also featured on the Hot Topic: Liquid Crystals! Take a look at this cool video about her research:
Jasper Groen is starting his PhD this month! He is coming to work on DNA data storage, and bringing his strong background in biology with him. We are pumped to have him on the team, and are excited to see how this project develops.
February 2024
Kunal presented to the Indian Ambassador of the Netherlands. We are happy to see how this international collaboration is going!
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'Congratulations to Guillermo Presa, who completed an outstanding thesis defense to earn his Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering! He has been a long-standing member of our group who is one of the most skilled engineers we have had the pleasure of working with!
We know he is going on to do great things, and his work here on automated lattice assembly will surely leave a lasting impact on the Shaping Matter Lab.
Cheers!
We know he is going on to do great things, and his work here on automated lattice assembly will surely leave a lasting impact on the Shaping Matter Lab.
Cheers!
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Interested in additive manufacturing of continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites? Check out this new publication that demonstrates a computational approach to generate 3D toolpaths that follow maximal stress directions in critical regions.
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Welcome Christopher Lankhof to the team! Chris has a strong background in material science, and is starting his PhD in Aerospace Engineering with our group. We are excited to see what direction he takes his research!
Who's interested in printing of glass? Check out this new publication on the use of volumetric printing to create complex silica glass structures.
This work was led by Professor Andre Studart at ETH Zurich and Christophe Moser at EPFL.
This work was led by Professor Andre Studart at ETH Zurich and Christophe Moser at EPFL.
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January 2024
Kunal went to give a talk at the Innovative Materials & Methods for Additive Manufacturing II Conference in Tomar, Portugal.
What a beautiful and historic city! The pictures here depict Castillo de Tomar, where the Knights Templar were hanging out in the 12th century.
According to tradition, one tile should be misplaced, because only God can be perfect (but we will still try). Can you find the misplaced tile?
What a beautiful and historic city! The pictures here depict Castillo de Tomar, where the Knights Templar were hanging out in the 12th century.
According to tradition, one tile should be misplaced, because only God can be perfect (but we will still try). Can you find the misplaced tile?
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We were recently featured in a TUDelft article about printing carbon capturing living materials from 3D-printed algae.
Happy New Year!
from the Shaping Matter Lab team
We look forward to more innovative work, new discoveries, and pushing the boundaries of material science!
from the Shaping Matter Lab team
We look forward to more innovative work, new discoveries, and pushing the boundaries of material science!
December 2023
We wish you happy holidays and a wonderful new year! We are excited for what the new year will bring (and yes, of course we 3D printed the tree).
A big congratulations to Caroline, who published her work on the 3D printing of flow-inspired anisotropic flow patterns with liquid crystalline polymers. This research opens avenues for studying and replicating intricate patterns observed in nature, such as wood or turbulent flow using 3D printing. We hope you can all appreciate the beautiful artwork of Vincent van Gogh, luckily nobody lost an ear during the printing process. Also, a big shout-out for Vinay, Chiara, Silvan, and Daniel for contributing on the paper!
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202307444
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202307444
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Check out this cool article the TU Delta wrote on our group and our quest to make engineered living materials. Kunal talks about how living materials can self-heal, adapt to their environment, and even make life on Mars possible. Also, Mark and Ingo got the chance to look cool in the picture!
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November 2023
Congratulations to Sander on successfully defending his Master thesis about controlling the deformation behaviour of Kirigami structures by varying material geometry and orientation. This kind of controlled deformation could be used to optimize structures for hydro- or aerodynamic properties.
Thanks for your hard work, and we wish you all the best wherever you decide to go next. 🎉
Thanks for your hard work, and we wish you all the best wherever you decide to go next. 🎉
Here's to another great year with the SML family and friends!
P.S. ask Pietro to make you some of his Tiramisu, it's delicious 😋
P.S. ask Pietro to make you some of his Tiramisu, it's delicious 😋
On the 23th, Deniz and Natalia presented the LICHENBLADES project at the Wind Europe conference, together with Israel Carrete and Julia Smid. We hope we will see many more bio-based windmills in the future!
Whoohoo! Great job to Boris on defending his Master thesis about the interlaminar fracture toughness of liquid crystalline polymers. He explored nature-inspired toughening approaches that led to increased understanding about the fracture mechanics of this unique material.
Good luck on your next stop! 🥳
Good luck on your next stop! 🥳
Welcome Wouter van der Sluis to the group! He has some creative ideas about natural fibers, so we are pumped to have him on board and can't wait to see his work progress.
Do you want to know more about how engineered living materials can be used to capture carbon? Read our latest paper on the 3D printing of micro algae. A big thank you to the incredible team in the Aubin-Tam group at the Applied Sciences faculty for the hard work they put into the paper.
Yaren Özüaçıksöz just started as a PhD candidate in our group, we are thrilled to have her onboard! She will be working on 3D printing electrodes for applications in engineered living materials.
We are happy to announce the newest addition to the team, our new post-doc Sarah Schyck! She has a solid background in physics and chemistry, and recently obtained her PhD at the Applied Sciences faculty. Her expertise in colloids and nanoparticles will be an invaluable contribution to our group. You can check out her previous work here.
We had a wonderful time at Formnext, see you next year! Now Kunal knows where to spend the budget 😉
Welcome our new master student, David Beaumann to the group. Let's see what you can do with Bamboo!
Congratulations to Natalia for her new publication on ultrasonic welding of thermoplastic composite joints. She did the work at the Aerospace Faculty during her Master's thesis. We will be seeing more from her soon!
Check out the paper in MDPI materials: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16216968
Check out the paper in MDPI materials: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16216968
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October 2023
New open position!
We are now seeking motivated PhD candidates and postdocs to create novel DNA storage materials using additive manufacturing as a part of the EIC pathfinder challenge. If you have a strong background in additive manufacturing technologies, lab work, and enjoy pioneering new ideas, we would be happy to hear your story!
Please find more details and apply directly at the link below:
Job details (tudelft.nl)
We are now seeking motivated PhD candidates and postdocs to create novel DNA storage materials using additive manufacturing as a part of the EIC pathfinder challenge. If you have a strong background in additive manufacturing technologies, lab work, and enjoy pioneering new ideas, we would be happy to hear your story!
Please find more details and apply directly at the link below:
Job details (tudelft.nl)
We're hiring!
We have new positions available for both PhDs and postdocs at the Shaping Matter Lab. If you are interested in working on new functional biomaterials in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment then we would love for you to apply!
Email Kunal at [email protected] to inquire about open positions for interest in both postdoc and PhD positions.
We have new positions available for both PhDs and postdocs at the Shaping Matter Lab. If you are interested in working on new functional biomaterials in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment then we would love for you to apply!
Email Kunal at [email protected] to inquire about open positions for interest in both postdoc and PhD positions.
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Dear Vinay, as you embark on this exciting new chapter at ASML, we wanted to take a moment to express our heartfelt gratitude for your incredible contributions and dedication during your time here with us as a postdoc!
Your work with LCP printing, topology optimisation, multi-physics modeling, and the beautiful kirigami shapes has been invaluable. Your expertise and your kindheartedness will be sorely missed. We wish you all the happiness in the world, and can't wait to follow your career at ASML. We know you will do great things!
Your work with LCP printing, topology optimisation, multi-physics modeling, and the beautiful kirigami shapes has been invaluable. Your expertise and your kindheartedness will be sorely missed. We wish you all the happiness in the world, and can't wait to follow your career at ASML. We know you will do great things!
Massive congratulations to Ingo for co-authoring this new publication on the characterization of ethanol-based chain elongation! He worked on this topic for his internship during his masters program in the Environmental Biotechnology department at the Faculty of Applied Sciences. We are proud of Ingo and can't wait to see what more you have in store!
Check out the paper in Nature Scientific Reports: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43682-x
Check out the paper in Nature Scientific Reports: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43682-x
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Kunal, Mark, and Ingo went to visit Waginingen University & Research, where Kunal gave a talk about biomaterials in Aerospace. There we had the chance to meet the brilliant scientists working on plant breeding and biotechnology. Thanks to everyone who took part including Julian Verdonk, Luisa Trindade, Tijs Ketelaar, and Lucas van der Zee.
Kunal had a wonderful trip to India to meet brilliant scientists along with a delegation from the Netherlands with the rector mangificus of TU Delft Tim van der Hagen. This trip will strengthen the tie between TU Delft and leading Indian technological institutes, with hopefully many fruitful collaborations to come!
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Read more about the trip on the TU Delft website.
September 2023
Thanks dr. Arend van Peer for educating us about selective breeding of fungi for food and non-food purposes! We really appreciate the chance to get to know you, and look forward to seeing you next time.
Check out Arend's work on the Waginingen University & Research page!
Check out Arend's work on the Waginingen University & Research page!
We had the pleasure of showing the lovely designers from TribeCraft (Zürich, CH) around our lab. Check out their website below!
A big congratulations to SAM XL—the field lab across from the Aerospace Faculty—for 5 years of innovation in Aerospace manufacturing! Kunal, Ingo, and Jeong-Joo enjoyed the chance to see the incredible robots up close.
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We had a blast bowling with Shishi, in celebration of her completing her time at our lab. Hopefully Kunal has better luck throwing strikes next time 😉. We are sad to see her leave as she's made an incredible impact on our lab, and we are going to miss her dearly! We wish her the best of luck moving forward into her surely successful career.
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August 2023
Welcome back to our colleague Mark Ablonczy! Excited to see the cool things you will achieve 🍄
July 2023
We are thrilled to announce our new PhD Ingo Nettersheim! Looking forward to his contributions to our research 🌿
The NXTGEN HIGHTECH E-mobility project on topology optimization for large scale 3D printing was kicked off at our own SAM|XL! 💪💪
Congrats to Linde and Varad for succesfully defending their Master's thesis 🥳🥳 We will miss your enthusiasm and hope you the best on this new journey!
Kunal had the pleasure to open the DoSChem summer school in the University of Vienna! He had a warm welcome from our friends from the Institute of Materials Chemistry.
June 2023
Congratulations to Sian for finishing his Master's thesis on structural supercapacitors! We wish you the best 🥳🥳🥳
🥳 Excited to welcome our newest lab member, @Momo_We_. Joining our team with passion and expertise, Momo is set to bring fresh perspectives and contribute to our research.
May 2023
Kunal wowed the audience with his talk on bioinspired matter at the Research ASM Spotlight. He discussed the potential applications and challenges in this field and shared his vision for the future. Congrats to Kunal on a successful presentation!🎉
April 2023
Hamed gave an excellent talk on-demand tailoring of mechanical properties in rigid polymer composites, which are frequently used in high-performance lightweight structures. We appreciate his insights and are grateful to have had the opportunity to hear him speak. Thank you to @kmasania and @AETUDelft for organizing the event. 💪🏼
Great job, Diego! Your presentation on ELPs was truly impressive. It was fascinating to learn about how nature can inspire the development of sustainable materials. Thank you for sharing your valuable insights with us.
Our team recently had the pleasure of visiting JEC Paris, a premier event in the composites industry. It was an incredible experience connecting with other professionals in the field, learning about the latest technologies, and showcasing our own innovations. We look forward to bringing back the knowledge and connections gained from this event to further advance our work.
March 2023
@satya_k_ammu did an excellent job with his pitch at the PhD event @AETUDelft! He really captured the audience's attention and delivered a compelling presentation. Kudos to Satya for a job well done!
Wow, that's fantastic news! We won the Eic Pathfinder on Data Storage! With this grant, we'll be able to expand our research and make even more progress in the field. As a result, we'll be hiring a PhD and a postdoc in the near future. 🥳🍾
Nxtgen Groeifonds official kickoff just took place!
February 2023
Kunal broke his collar doh!
We had a fantastic time visiting the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute! It was an incredibly informative and enriching experience, and we were impressed by the depth and breadth of knowledge at the institute. Thank you to everyone who made the visit possible. 🍄
Congrats from Xinrui in civil engineering for passing her 1 year research plan meeting!
We had an engaging and informative talk from Momo, who visited us from Vienna to discuss "Fun with Dung"! Thank you, Momo, for sharing your knowledge and insights with us.🍄
January 2023
Congratulations, Zhiyuan, on passing your one-year research plan meeting! This is a significant milestone in your academic journey, and it's a testament to your hard work and dedication. Keep up the excellent work, and we look forward to seeing your continued progress in your research. Well done! 🥳
We would like to express our gratitude to the Bremen FIBRE for graciously hosting us during our visit.
Great news! Kunal won the ERC consolidator grant for his project on living composites! This is a tremendous achievement and a testament to Kunal's hard work and dedication. We're excited to see the progress that will be made in this cutting-edge field. Congratulations, Kunal!
Thanks SML for celebrating with Fungi beer and Tiramisu!!! It was a great way to unwind and enjoy each other's company. Thank you for your hospitality and for making the occasion all the more special. 🍄🍻
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December 2022
It was an absolute blast to have our Secret Santa celebration in person again! After a challenging year, it was wonderful to come together and enjoy each other's company in a fun and festive way. Thank you to everyone who participated and helped make the event a success!🎅🧑🎄
Congratulations to Shashank and Sowrabh on their graduation and the successful completion of their impressive project on Kirigami and natural fiber composites! It's inspiring to see such innovative work being done in this field. We wish them both the best of luck in their future endeavors. Well done, Shashank and Sowrabh!🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations, Kevin, on completing a fantastic project! Your contributions were invaluable, and we are grateful for the hard work and dedication you brought to the team. We miss having you here with us and wish you all the best in your future endeavors. Well done! 🥳💪🏼
Wishing you all a joyous holiday season and a wonderful end to the year! Here's to a fantastic year of science ahead, filled with exciting discoveries and meaningful progress. Happy holidays to everyone! 🥳
A follow up workshop for team building on learning to communicate better.
It was an incredible honor to be invited to the Xmas symposium 😊, and a delight to see so many familiar faces again! The event was an excellent opportunity to reconnect with old friends and colleagues, and we were thrilled to be a part of such an exciting gathering. Thank you to everyone who made the symposium possible, and we look forward to future opportunities to come together and share our knowledge and experiences.
Awesome, it’s out 🥳! Amazing project on #3Dprinting of #livingmaterials in the form of responsive mycelium hydrogels. @AETUDelft @Shaping_Matter 🍄 Our team has developed a 3D printing approach that uses fungal mycelia to create living complex materials capable of self-repair, regeneration, and adaptation to their environment. By printing hydrogels with the fungus Ganoderma lucidum, we have created a mechanically robust, self-cleaning robotic skin that can autonomously regenerate after sustaining damage, demonstrating the potential of this technology for engineering living materials.
November 2022
Amazing to be invited to the MRS in Boston. Inspiring talks from all over the place, and nice to see friends from over the pond after a LONNGG time.
Mega visit from the group to the Formnext in Frankfurt. Looking forward to more Apfelwein next year!
Lovely to have the RWTH ITA Aachen team over for a visit and symposium on the data-driven processing of composite materials.
Super exciting to kick off the NWO Lichenblade project! After spending the whole covid meeting only online, it was nice to meet in person for the first time ever!
October 2022
Afterwork practice on team building from the workshop on learning to communicate better.
Great talk and discussions with Kaline Furlan of @TUHamburg on her work of capillary driven #AdditiveManufacturing assembly of colloids combined with ALD!
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Great COST Action #ESR training school! What a pleasure to meet so many young talents and share our work on 3D printing of #bioinspired #composites! Thanks for having me over Sofia Teixeria, Jose Sena Cruz & Tasos Vassilopoulos !
Sungi graduated! With his thesis on Large Scale 3D-Printing with long fiber reinforced polymer, he could def cross the river with a #3DBenchy boat made with @ceadgroup's extruder (we're told the print takes long so we'll have to be a bit more patient!)
CONGRATS SUNGI! 🥳🚀🤖
CONGRATS SUNGI! 🥳🚀🤖
September 2022
Welcome to Deniz! He will join us to develop the additive manufacturing of wind blades using natural fibre composites! We’re very excited for you to join the group soon.
Welcome to Deniz! He will join us to develop the additive manufacturing of wind blades using natural fibre composites! We’re very excited for you to join the group soon.
New paper out in advanced science! We show that you can dramatically suppress Eddy currents when insulating single graphite particles in composites. We establish a new record value of Q in our diamagnetic levitating sensors. What a cool collaboration with our Delft colleagues in PME!
What an honour to have the opening keynote of the Adhesion conference! Some wonderful chats with colleagues as well as hard debates on origins of toughness and the formation of interphases. Glasgow is an amazing city!
Great to see our collaborator Joseph in Toulouse! ISAE SUPERAERO has an impressive campus and it was really nice to discuss with Dr Duriez about his work on ecologically efficient topology optimization. He even calculated the CO2 emission of his simulations to obtain his PhD results – impressive stuff!
Amazing to have Dr Jemma Rowlandson and her colleague Charles de from Uni Bristol. They do very interesting work on design of experiments to target experiments with complex and inter-related input parameters. Very inspiring and we eagerly will look to apply these principles to our signalling research.
Despite some bad weather, and lack of training, Kunal made it over 4 passes to earn his Alpenbrevet Gold. We like to work hard, and play harder!
Congrats to our friend Georgy Filonenko on becoming assistant professor in materials science 3mE.
Congrats Ingo, on graduating his master thesis on printing of engineered living materials.
August 2022
Welcome Natalia! She will be joining us as a new PhD student on the LichenBlades project to protect wind blades against erosion using architectured living materials!
Welcome Natalia! She will be joining us as a new PhD student on the LichenBlades project to protect wind blades against erosion using architectured living materials!
The work of Wilhelm on nacre-like composites gets published in PNAS!
Composites containing mineral bridges and platelet asperities similar to nacre are produced. The damping performance of the synthetic composites surpasses many biological and man-made materials, even though nacre has a much more perfect microstructural organization. Our nacre-like composites display a loss modulus 2.4-fold higher than natural nacre and 1.4-fold more than highly dissipative natural fiber composites!
Composites containing mineral bridges and platelet asperities similar to nacre are produced. The damping performance of the synthetic composites surpasses many biological and man-made materials, even though nacre has a much more perfect microstructural organization. Our nacre-like composites display a loss modulus 2.4-fold higher than natural nacre and 1.4-fold more than highly dissipative natural fiber composites!
Congrats Andreas on graduating with his master thesis on Design of cellular structures for robotic assembly! It was a pleasure for Kunal to be part of the supervision team for such an exciting topic with the Industrial Design faculty.
July 2022
Our new paper demonstrates a versatile approach to shaping difficult to print materials. One of the exciting prospects is that we demonstrate shaping of extremely precise and complex geometries with living materials! Simona presented the paper in Advanced Materials and the spin-off Sallea at the Pro2Tech Delft annual event in the Oude Bibliotheek Delft.
Our new paper demonstrates a versatile approach to shaping difficult to print materials. One of the exciting prospects is that we demonstrate shaping of extremely precise and complex geometries with living materials! Simona presented the paper in Advanced Materials and the spin-off Sallea at the Pro2Tech Delft annual event in the Oude Bibliotheek Delft.
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With his pioneering and exciting work on Direct-Ink Writing of cellulose producing bacteria, Kevin aced his master thesis defense. Really happy for him, and cherry on cake, we’re lucky to have him stay around for a few more months with us as a researcher with the spin-off Sallea.
Caroline wins Best Poster at the Delft BioDay 2022 for our work on 3D-printing LCP into self-reinforced composites!
Berend graduates! his work on 5-axis printing hydrogen pressure vessels from liquid crystal polymers was very well received. We will miss him but we’re so excited for him with his next adventure at TreeComposites!
June 2022
The first summer school on Multiscale Manufacturing of Composites (MUMAC 2022) is complete! it was a success with many great interactions from participants with very diverse backgrounds. We were happy to give a hand for a session on Topoology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing. A guest lecture was given by Joseph Morlier and practicals in the afternoon were organized by Kunal, Vinay, Caroline, Mu and Satya in the printing lab.
The first summer school on Multiscale Manufacturing of Composites (MUMAC 2022) is complete! it was a success with many great interactions from participants with very diverse backgrounds. We were happy to give a hand for a session on Topoology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing. A guest lecture was given by Joseph Morlier and practicals in the afternoon were organized by Kunal, Vinay, Caroline, Mu and Satya in the printing lab.
Third edition of the Additive Manufacturing course is over! What a pleasure to work with these students. We hope you achieved your learning goals. Thank you for your enthusiasm and energy!
Well done to our postdoc Vinay on being awarded a project from the Dutch research agenda on materials (NWA) to develop liquid crystal polymer printing for hydrogen storage applications! Many congrats!
Well done also Ranjan on a successful master thesis defence! Ranjan demonstrated the enhanced buckling load capability that a high degree of material shaping can bring.
Well done also Ranjan on a successful master thesis defence! Ranjan demonstrated the enhanced buckling load capability that a high degree of material shaping can bring.
May 2022
So grateful to be awarded the KiC Wind energy grant from the NWO! Four PhDs will develop a new bio-inspired approach to mitigate and reverse erosion on off-shore wind blades. We'll be developing the additive manufacturing of natural fibre composites and harnessing living materials to regenerate material integrity in the harsh conditions at sea!
More info: https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/four-grants-awarded-within-kic-call-wind-and-solar-energy-innovations
Welcome Prof. Joseph Morlier from ISAE SUPAERO in Toulouse! Joseph is with us on sabbatical to develop scientific understanding and close the gap between eco-efficient topology optimisation and the complex shaping of new materials! Super happy to have you and your family with us!
So grateful to be awarded the KiC Wind energy grant from the NWO! Four PhDs will develop a new bio-inspired approach to mitigate and reverse erosion on off-shore wind blades. We'll be developing the additive manufacturing of natural fibre composites and harnessing living materials to regenerate material integrity in the harsh conditions at sea!
More info: https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/four-grants-awarded-within-kic-call-wind-and-solar-energy-innovations
Welcome Prof. Joseph Morlier from ISAE SUPAERO in Toulouse! Joseph is with us on sabbatical to develop scientific understanding and close the gap between eco-efficient topology optimisation and the complex shaping of new materials! Super happy to have you and your family with us!
April 2022
Congrats to Dr Tim Kuipers from Industrial design, TU Delft, and Dr Yingwei Hou from Aeronautical engineering at Imperial College for defending your PhDs. What an honour to serve on your committees! Tim developed tool path generation algorithms for the design of functionally graded composites and interfaces. Yingwei worked on the understanding of humidity and its role on porosity development during additive manufacturing of continuous fibre composites.
Welcome to all our students on this years edition of the Master elective on additive manufacturing AE4ASM521! First time in person!!
Time for the Patrouille de Glaciers 2022! Hopp Hopp Hopp!
Congrats to Dr Tim Kuipers from Industrial design, TU Delft, and Dr Yingwei Hou from Aeronautical engineering at Imperial College for defending your PhDs. What an honour to serve on your committees! Tim developed tool path generation algorithms for the design of functionally graded composites and interfaces. Yingwei worked on the understanding of humidity and its role on porosity development during additive manufacturing of continuous fibre composites.
Welcome to all our students on this years edition of the Master elective on additive manufacturing AE4ASM521! First time in person!!
Time for the Patrouille de Glaciers 2022! Hopp Hopp Hopp!
March 2022
Lars nailed it! What an impressive achievement, congratulations and BRAVO! 🎉 he worked on Simulated Morphogenesis using Ghost Layer Optimization for Additive Manufacturing.
Lars nailed it! What an impressive achievement, congratulations and BRAVO! 🎉 he worked on Simulated Morphogenesis using Ghost Layer Optimization for Additive Manufacturing.
Feb 2022
Kunal is presenting at the Structural engineering seminar at University of Madison Wisconsin, please join us!
Kunal is presenting at the Structural engineering seminar at University of Madison Wisconsin, please join us!
Jan 2022
Kunal presented a keynote at the IOM3 Natural materials Association on Additive manufacturing of biobased biologically-inspired composites
Kunal presented a keynote at the IOM3 Natural materials Association on Additive manufacturing of biobased biologically-inspired composites
Dec 2021
Congratulations Nick Faber on an excellent thesis on ‘Improving strength of 3D printed parts via stress aligned print paths’ 👏🏾
Congratulations Nick Faber on an excellent thesis on ‘Improving strength of 3D printed parts via stress aligned print paths’ 👏🏾
Nov 2021
Kunal joins Editorial board of Open Access UN Sustainable Development Goals, Journal Biomaterials and Polymer Horizon.
The SML visited Formnext! So nice to hang out after the long lockdowns!
Kunal joins Editorial board of Open Access UN Sustainable Development Goals, Journal Biomaterials and Polymer Horizon.
The SML visited Formnext! So nice to hang out after the long lockdowns!
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Nicole's paper is finally out! Well done!
Check out this cool video about Chiara's project during COVID lockdowns
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Oct 2021
Boom! Kunal got tenured, less than two years after joining TU Delft!
Boom! Kunal got tenured, less than two years after joining TU Delft!
Wonderful symposium at ITA RWTH Aachen on textile processing, thanks a lot for hosting us
Check our collaborative paper with the Multifunctional Materials group at ETH Zürich on printing skeletons for aerogels that enable better photocatalysis in Small! Image Credit: Dr Murielle Schreck
Kunal joins Editorial board of Open Access Journal Nanofabrication.
Welcome to the team Boris! Congratulations on being part of our dynamic team!
Welcome to the team Boris! Congratulations on being part of our dynamic team!
Sep 2021 "Spin-Printing of Liquid Crystal Polymer into Recyclable and Strong All-Fiber Materials", Advanced Functional Materials, featured in TU Delft Aerospace Engineering, @NCCRbioinspired.
Welcome to the team Sowrabh, we are happy to have you in our lab!
Aug 2021 Congratulations on joining our team Benji!
Excited to see this work published: Solvent-Free Three-Dimensional Printing of Biodegradable Elastomers Using Liquid Macrophotoinitiators.
July 2021 Welcome Hao! We are so excited to have you on our team!
So much fun to give a guest lecture to the Nanotechnology class in Bionanoscience! we even got to discuss everything from flagella molecular motors & filamentous cyanobacteria to bio-inspired materials!
Video Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.057
Welcome Vinay! Vinay is a post-doc who is going to work on topology and laminate optimization in lcp printing.
Kunal joins the ESA “Materials Space Environmental Survivability" working group. Super nice discussions with the other scientists about what it takes to get new materials into space applications!
Good bye Joana! Joana was an Erasmus exchange student working on 3D printing of hierarchical gyroids. Thanks for joining us! All the best for your future.
June 2021 : That brings us to the end of the AM course, congrats to all the students! Really well done!
May 2021 : Thanks to Ruud van Ommen and Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam from TNW for their wonderful lectures on Living Materials.
April 2021 : The AE4ASM521 course on Additive Manufacturing has begun. Welcome to all the students attending it and hope you enjoy it!
Mar 2021 : In the webinar series Airborne on Air, Kunal spoke to the CTO, Marcus Kremers on hierarchical bioinspired materials with contradicting properties. Link -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxgrJIiyWEA
Feb 2021 Nevena and Yinyin's paper in Sci Advances "Digital light 3D printing of customized bioresorbable airway stents with elastomeric properties" was covered by AZoM, ScienceDaily, 3D printing industry, Innovation report, ScienMag, Mirage News, Health management.org, EurekAlert, Phys.org, ETH News and TU Delft News,
Oct 2020 Congrats to our friends at NematX AG for winning the start up challenge at Formnext 2020!
More info: https://fon-mag.de/highlight-stories/2020-10-start-up-challenge/?L=1
More info: https://fon-mag.de/highlight-stories/2020-10-start-up-challenge/?L=1
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Oct 2020 Our new course on Additive manufacturing at TU Delft, AE4ASM521 has just been evaluated by the students. They scored us 4.31/5.00, thanks for participating and making it so enjoyable!
“DNA storage enables 3D printed functional materials with embedded memory” Nature Biotechnology (2020), featured in Wired, ETH News, ETH Video, NZZ, Wall Street Journal, 3D printing industry, Economist, SciGlow and SciTech Daily.
"Three-dimensional printing of multicomponent glasses using phase-separating resins”, Nature Materials (2020), featured in ETH news, ZME Science, Tech Explorist, Futurity, Phys.org, Chemistryworld, X-mol, Science Daily, Imeche, The Hans India, SciTechDaily, Soylent News, Blick, Newsgram and 3Druck.
"3D printing salt as a template for magnesium with structured porosity", Advanced Materials, (2019), featured in ETH News, MedicalView, Phys.org, and 3D printing Industry.
"Tunable wood by reversible interlocking and bioinspired mechanical gradients", Advanced Science (2019), featured in Physics world article.
"Hierarchical toughening of nacre like composites", Advanced Functional Materials (2018), reported in ETH News and SCCER Mobility.
“Quantifying the role of mineral bridges on the fracture resistance of nacre-like composites”, PNAS (2018) reported in Bioinspired-materials.ch, Department of Materials News, Phys.org, Nanowerk, SCCER Mobility, Sciencedaily.com, Longroom.com, EurekAlert, News atlas, Futurity, DesignNews and ETH News.
“Three-dimensional printing of hierarchical liquid crystal polymer structures”, Nature (2018) published widely including: Nature behind the paper, Nature twitter, Nature Instagram, 3DERS.org, Physics world, All3DP, 3D printing Industry, 3D printing media network, Nanowerk, Chemistry News, 3DPrint.com, Sci-News, ETH D-MATL News, 3Dmake, 3D-Grenzenlos, AzoMaterials, phys.org, Technology.org, Interesting engineering, ETH Industry News, SCCER Mobility and Materials World, Chemistry views and shortlisted best research/academic team in 3D Printing Industry Awards 2019.
Climbing reports
Imperial College Raru Valley Himalayan expedition report featured on UKClimbing.com, the American Alpine Journal and Imperial College London (2011).
Imperial College Obra Valley Himalayan expedition report featured on the British Mountianeering Council, the American Alpine Journal , Indian Mountaineering Federation, Mount Everest Foundation and Imperial College London (2010).
Imperial College Taghia Morocco Big-wall expedition report featured on UKClimbing.com and Imperial College London (2009).
