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).
