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).
