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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · May 26

#legends! @sschyck.bsky.social @shardulbhusari.bsky.social Mrinal and @sourav-p.bsky.social

Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · May 26

SML'ers won the Lustrum Photo Challenge for the Aerospace Faculty's 85th Anniversary! We 3D printed fungi for this super fun challenge. Here's some behind the scenes action as well. 📸🍾🎉🍄

@kmasania.bsky.social #AerospaceEngineering

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Apr 29

Milestone alert 🥂
SML's Knight in Shining Armour, Sarah, officially knighted her ChemE comrade Reece on April 15th — from labs to vows, what a plot twist 💒🎉 Big cheers to the newlyweds and lots of good luck and happiness for your future!

@kmasania.bsky.social @sschyck.bsky.social

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Apr 29

Love this 😍

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Apr 15

what a #dreamteam!

Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Apr 15

Last week was a lot of fun—we helped organise workshops for #TUDelft Girls' Day!

High school girls tried 3D printing chocolate on cookies, made Prince Rupert drops, isolated DNA, and loads more cool stuff.

Hopefully, we sparked some curiosity and maybe even inspired a few future #WomenInSTEM ✨ ~IN

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Apr 14

It was fun to pitch my work on 3D printing of lab-grown wood at the EPS Annual Meeting!

The people from @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social are an amazing brainy bunch with a lot of great input and ideas. 🌱

Thanks for the support @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social! #plantscience

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Mar 14

😂 don’t get me started

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Mar 14

Thanks for saving the tree in front of my office window, guys!

It did get me wondering whether we could have made living rope-tree #composites. Time to write a grant @kmasania.bsky.social...?

#plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials

Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Mar 14

🌳Mu and Alex saved the tree outside our office window from slow strangulation, just in time for the spring! 🌴

Great job guys, saving this #engineeredlivingmaterial!

@m-amani.bsky.social @alexluijten.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social #plantscience #ELMs

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Feb 7

We have two new vacancies to join our research team at TU Delft! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Feb 7

How are wind turbine blades manufactured? Last week, 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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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Feb 9

This 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! 👩🏼‍🔬🔬🧪🌱

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Mar 6

Welcome Winston Lindqwister (Post-Doc) and Jimmy Cheng (as phD) to SML! Winston (left) will be making multi-scale computational models of hierarchical fungal engineered living materials 🍄 👩‍💻 while Jimmy is going to be researching Bioinspired Grippers 🤖
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#bioinspiredgrippers #Multiscalemodelling

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Feb 28

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.
📸courtesy - Aster Tournoy
@kmasania.bsky.social

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Feb 7

We have two new vacancies to join our research team at TU Delft! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Feb 6

Back to the office after a few days away, to find this note from a student. ❤️ makes all the hard work worthwhile! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social @ingonettersheim.bsky.social

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Jan 24

✈️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... ⛈️ #3dprinting #emulsions

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Jan 6

Thanks to @ec.europa.eu Horizon magazine for this cool article about our work! projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m... @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

From brain maps to living bridges: the innovations set to reshape life in 2025

Whoever thinks research is not exciting might be in for a surprise. In 2025, we could witness genetic decoding of the human brain, collect solar energy in space, and walk across a bridge built of elec...

projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Dec 20

Brilliant end to the year with an amazing team! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Dec 18

youtube.com/shorts/tanH4...

New aerospace and building materials could repair themselves thanks to fungi and bacteria

YouTube video by HORIZON: the EU Research & Innovation magazine

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Dec 18

youtube.com/shorts/tanH4... Check out this YouTube video about our research on mycelium based composite #ELMs @kmasania.bsky.social

New aerospace and building materials could repair themselves thanks to fungi and bacteria

YouTube video by HORIZON: the EU Research & Innovation magazine

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Dec 13

🚀Super proud of Wouter, the first master's student I had the pleasure to guide through his master's thesis! He did a really cool thesis on 3D printing of bioinspired, bacteria-embedded ceramic composites. #engineeredlivingmaterials #3Dprinting @kmasania.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Dec 3

🪴A couple of months ago, we received an NWO-XS grant to explore the 3D printing of lab-grown wood. Stuff is cooking in the lab... stay tuned! 🔬🚀 Find out more: t.co/tfvPI0Yqsq @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Nov 26

Congrats my friend and colleague @Yinyin_Bao https://t.co/4nbmUYllrY

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hey @SpaceX ! Thanks for the ride to @Space_Station for these 3Dprinted samples! @AETUDelft @Shaping_Matter @AdvPortfolio https://t.co/NlhDNUYLBz

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Nov 26

Check this amazing article about our #ERC work from @HorizonMagEU @Shaping_Matter @AETUDelft ! #magic and #science https://t.co/N5Vyn1m7jS

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · Nov 26

Super excited to be at @AaltoUniversity for the @LIBER_Centre symposium! #ELMs #hybridlivingsystems Looking forward to some wonderful talks and making new friends! @Shaping_Matter @AETUDelft https://t.co/J6YT00WsFd

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