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SUMMARY VOLUME 6 2023 CORNWALL: FROM CORN TO WALL FROM SUGAR TO CLIMATE-FRIENDLY PET ‘IT ISN’T EASY TO DEVELOP A NEW TECHNOLOGY ON YOUR OWN’ LOWTECH BUILDING MATERIALS: BETTER, CLEANER AND CHEAPE OPTIMISATION OF HARD-SOFT MATERIAL INTERFACES DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 2023

Innovative Materials Summary volume 6 2023 This is a summary of the most recent edition of Innovative Materials. Would you like to read the entire articles?

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SUMMARY INNOVATIVE MATERIALS 6 2023 Wood foam as packaging and material

LIGNEW wood foam, developed and patented by Fraunhofer WKI, will be produced and distributed by Butterweck Holzstoffe GmbH & Co. KG. Wood foam is suitable as a core material for new hybrid materials, in particular for ecological lightweight-construction applications. Construction work for a production plant in Northern Germany will commence shortly.

Delivery of the first wood-foam panels is expected to take place in 2026.

CO2 as a raw material for sustainable plastics

A team of scientists led by the University of Liège is developing a new technique for the production of easily recyclable polyurethane using CO2. The study, which was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), could provide a solution through the development of truly sustainable plastics.

Clean electricity with chicken feathers

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) have now found a way to put these feathers to good use. Using a simple and environmentally friendly process, they extract the protein keratin from the feathers and convert it into ultra-fine fibres known as amyloid fibrils. These keratin fibrils go on to be used in the membrane of a fuel cell.

Hydrogen and drinking water from the sea

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a floating solar-powered device that can convert polluted water or seawater into clean hydrogen fuel and purified water, anywhere in the world. It is inspired by photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into food. Tests on the device showed it could produce clean water from highly polluted water, seawater and even the river Cam in central Cambridge.

New carbon material sets energy-storage record

Guided by machine learning, chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best comparable commercial material.

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SUMMARY INNOVATIVE MATERIALS 6 2023 ‘Cooling Glass’

University of Maryland (UMD) researchers aiming to combat rising global temperatures have developed a new ‘cooling glass’ that can turn down the heat indoors without electricity by drawing on the cold depths of space.

CornWall: from corn to wall

StoneCycling and Circular Matters developed a joint product - CornWall - to accelerate the spread of biobased building materials. CornWall is a wall finishing material crafted from plant-based biomass. It is sourced primarily from the cores of regional (Western Europe) corn cobs

Welding steel onto aluminium

Steel and aluminium are important materials for industry, but are difficult to weld together because brittle zones are created during the welding process. Processes have now been developed that make the quality of the welded connections ‘acceptable’, but this does not alter the fact that the strength of the weld imposes limitations. Scientists at Hiroshima University say they have now found a solution to this. They developed a 3D printing method that can be used to create extremely strong stainless steel-aluminium connections.

HygroShell: self-shaping of a lightweight wood structure

A number of students and researchers from the interdisciplinary master program ITECH and the Excellence Cluster IntCDC at the University of Stuttgart developed: HygroShell.

The HygroShell project investigates the possibilities of the previously undesirable hygroscopic material properties of wood to create form and structure.

New design solid state electro­lytes could be breakthrough

Researchers led by the Center for Korean Nanoparticle Research (Institute for Basic Science, IBS), have announced a major breakthrough in the field such next-generation solid-state batteries. According to IBS, the findings could enable the production of batteries based on a new chloride-based solid electrolyte.

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SUMMARY INNOVATIVE MATERIALS 6 2023 From sugar to climate-friendly PET

Sugar extracted from corn, sugar beet, and straw is the raw material for future plastic production. Together with Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Danish company Topsoe, which supplies technology for the green transition of chemical and fuel production, is developing a biomass-based method for producing one of the components used in the production of PET plastic.

Extensible cellulose packaging materials

VTT Technical Research Center of Finland says it has made a breakthrough in the field of cellulose packaging materials.

Enabled by foam forming technology, VTT’s formable cellulose-based webs with 30% extensibility were used to make rigid packages using an industrial product packaging line.

Do sorghum and cattail replace potato and onion?

Kuunders arable farm grows the grain sorghum in Deurne, Janke van Dijk grows cattail (Typha) in Helenaveen. Both kill two birds with one stone: they grow material that construction companies like to use, and their crops are suitable for the rewetting in and around the Peel Venen, a wetland in the southeast of The Netherlands.

‘It isn’t easy to develop a new technology on your own’

The AiM2XL research programme is a collaborative effort by a broad consortium of companies and researchers in various disciplines to explore the pros and cons of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, for a range of applications.

One of the programme’s successes has been the production of a massive stainless steel ship’s rudder with a new 3D-printing technology based on wire arc welding.

Lowtech building materials

Natural building materials can help make rental housing affordable and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A research project funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) shows that operating and maintenance costs can be reduced using climate-regulating building materials such as wood and clay, as well as through smart planning. Construction technology becomes redundant. Europe’s largest earth building in Darmstadt, also built with support from DBU, shows how much potential there is in earth and loam as a building material.

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SUMMARY INNOVATIVE MATERIALS 6 2023 Optimisation of hard-soft material interfaces

Most people can relate to having a laptop charger break right where the flexible cable meets the solid adapter. This is just one example of how difficult it is to effectively interface hard and soft materials. Using a unique 3D printing process, TU Delft researchers produced hybrid multi-material interfaces that reached a remarkable closeness to nature’s design of bone-tendon connections.

Dutch Design Week 2023 Behind Bioinnovations/CHEMARTS

During the DDW, Aalto University presented its ‘Behind Bioinnovations’ exhibition of the Aalto University Bioinnovation Center. The innovation center focuses on sustainable bio-based materials, with the aim of further helping the transition to a bio and circular economy.

Dutch Design Week 2023: FOLD

The Finnish Aalto University is involved in the FOLD project, together with Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) and in collaboration with partner companies. FOLD presents design experiments, packaging and interior design concepts using origami-based folded structures.

Dutch Design Week 2023: Urban Reef

Under the adage ‘Cities are home to all forms of life, not just people’, Urban Reef designs and manufactures so-called ‘open habitats’ that encourage the growth and diversity of life in urban environments such as streets, squares and buildings.

Dutch Design Week 2023: Algae

In the Algae project, German designer Lena Vogel investigates new methods for growing microalgae. 3D printing clay creates a special surface on which the algae can attach and grow. This is not only advantageous in algae cultivation, but also opens completely new possibilities for applications. To illustrate this principle, a columnar, free-standing object has been created, with which algae cultivation can be integrated into different spaces and environments without major, invasive interventions.

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SUMMARY INNOVATIVE MATERIALS 6 2023 Dutch Design Week 2023: Making Noise: Link the system

The Link the system project by German designer Theresa Schwaiger investigated the possibilities of geopolymers as a sustainable alternative to cement. Geopolymers emit four times less CO₂ than cement and can be made from industrial waste material. With this insight, the idea was developed to use geopolymers from local waste sources in the spirit of ‘urban mining’.

Dutch Design Week 2023 MySpeaker

MySpeaker - a project by Kyenno Scheepers - should be seen as a demonstration of change towards a future in which biomaterials play an important role, circularity is embraced, and design plays a crucial role in shaping a more sustainable planet.

Dutch Design Week 2023 Just one brick

Architects, product designers and artists are invited to participate in Yi Design’s ‘JUST ONE BRICK’ project. The aim of the project is to draw attention to the innovative possibilities of recycled brick material. The presentation showcased the various products, including a 100 percent recycled brick made from porcelain waste.

Dutch Design Week 2023 Turning PFAS-contaminated clay soil into clean bricks

Emy Bensdorp of the innovative Dutch startup Claybens developed a technique to process PFAS-contaminated clay soil into clean bricks. The bricks are gradually developed into a fully-fledged building material.

Dutch Design Week 2023 Babel, a multispecies refuge

Climate change will cause extreme weather, with more intense precipitation, and droughts having negative effects across species, and particularly insects.

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SUMMARY INNOVATIVE MATERIALS 6 2023 Dutch Design Week 2023 Making Noise: the essence of biocement

Using energy-efficient biofabrication and 3D printing, German designers Friedrich Gerlach and Julia Huhnholz developed innovative shapes from recycled stones. During the project, the key functional and aesthetic potential of biocement was investigated and used to design a piece of seating furniture.

Dutch Design Week 2023 Bric Bio-based pavilion

No steel or concrete but flax, wood waste and hemp. These are the natural materials that the organically designed BRIC pavilion is made of. The pavilion contains furniture made of mycelium (fungal threads). Bio-based materials as building materials of the future? A welcome solution on the road to more sustainable construction without exhausting raw materials.

This is where BRIC is about.

Dutch Design Week 2023: Plant Pixel

As in previous years, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) contributed to the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. One of the inspirational designs from Wageningen is Plant Pixel, a green wall design for buildings by PhD candidate Maricruz Solera Jimenez.

Dutch Design Week 2023 Drivers of change: MycoSonic a soundabsorbing acoustic panel

By combining biodegradable industrial waste materials like sawdust and natural sheep wool with the fungi an effective noise reducing composite was created.

MAKE IT MATTER MAKE IT MATTER is compiled in collaboration with MaterialDistrict (MaterialDistrict.com). In this section new, and/or interesting developments and innovative materials are highlighted.

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MaterialDistrict Utrecht 2024 The 16th edition of MaterialDistrict Utrecht will take place from 6 to 8 March 2024 in Werkspoorkathedraal, Utrecht. With 125 exhibitors, a materials exhibition of 250 materials and a lecture programme with 50 speakers, the materials event for (interior) architects and R&D professionals is completely devoted to material innovations for the spatial domain: Architecture, Interior, Garden & Landscape Architecture, Leisure , Exhibition & Decor Construction and Furniture & Interior Construction.

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