March 2022 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! 
​Jan 2022 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’ 👏🏾
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! 
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!
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!​
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.
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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!
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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​
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).