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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Aug 11

Saurav presented his latest work, developed with Sid Kumar, Prakash Thakolakaran, and Jovana Jovanova, at ESMC 2025 in Lyon and MARSS 2025 at Purdue! He showed how mechanics, machine learning, and additive manufacturing create the next-gen piezoelectric metamaterials 🦾👨‍💻
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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Jul 11

🌳 Check out these two happy faces! Kimon and Elijah finished their bachelor's theses last week! 🌿

It was a lot of fun to guide them in the process and to have them working on my project. All the best with the next step, guys! 🪴

#PhDlife #plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Jun 12

🏐✨ Cheers to the 2 champion teams (winner & runner up) of the ASM Dept.'s Volleyball Tournament on June 4! 🎉 It was a day of friendly rivalry, but they're back to being awesome labmates now. We had lot of fun in their day out with sports & BBQ🤝💪 #Sportsday #LabLife
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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧬✨ Massive props to Jasper & Kunal for their DNA-coated 3D knitted installation at Venice Biennale 2025 🇮🇹🏛️!
Teaming up with SO–IL, Mariana Popescu & TheGreenEyl, they’ve spanned the historic Arsenale Corderie columns with next-gen natural fibers 🌿🧵🌌 #VeniceBiennale #DNAKnits

@kmasania.bsky.social

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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 · May 16

Check out his thesis here: surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index....

#additivemanufacturing #engineeredlivingmaterials #materialscience

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Library_PDF Satya.pdf is publicly shared

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · May 16

🔬Many congratulations to Satya, who defended his PhD "Shaping Mechano-Responsiveness: 3d-Printing of Piezoelectric and Living Materials"! ⚡

Of course, we made him a funny PhD-hat which included the many yoga poses which kept him sane through the journey! 😉

#PhDlife #ELMs #additivemanufacturing ~IN

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · Apr 30

🔬Always nice to help out a fellow scientist... I suspect that the tensile testing of some of Gonçalo's homemade TPU filament with Kimon will not end up in a figure...

#3Dprinting #PhDlife #AdditiveManufacturing

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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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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Apr 22

Last week, @alexluijten.bsky.social passed his go/no-go moment of his PhD! 🏆 This means we can expect more cool work in discrete lattice fabrication and more cool videos of robots doing stuff! 🤖

@kmasania.bsky.social #robotics #science #PhDlife #additivemanufacturing ~IN

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

A big shoutout to @saurav-sharma.bsky.social, @sourav-p.bsky.social, @ingonettersheim.bsky.social, Jasper, Stefan, Chris, and all the others involved in making it happen! 🚀 🥳

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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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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Apr 3

You can find the paper by Caroline Houriet, Boris Ulyanov, John-Alan Pascoe, @kmasania.bsky.social on #additivemanufacturing here:

doi.org/10.1016/j.ad...

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Apr 3

🌳How do trees ensure their branches are not blown off by the wind, and can we harness this for 3D-printed structures?

Caroline's paper explores how wavy fibre patterns inspired by trees can toughen 3D-printed materials.🪴

Check it out! #3DPrinting #Bioinspired #MaterialsScience #PlantScience ~IN

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Apr 1

Sourav, Silvan, and Jimmy had a great time trying out our new Shaper Origin hand-held CNC mill.

Of course, we divided the work like true #academics!

#CNC #milling #woodworking #PhDlife ~IN

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

Have you already checked out this cool paper in Composites Part A, which explores how you can use topology optimisation to make fibre-reinforced composites more eco-friendly?

doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

#composites #machinelearning #ecodesign

@cvjansari.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social ~IN

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Mar 25

Just another day at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft...

We're sad to see our garden piece go, but the @koninklijkemarine.bsky.social apparently want their Westland Lynx back. #aerospace #tudelft ~IN

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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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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
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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 · 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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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
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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · Feb 4

LICHEN-BLADES consortia members have transformed wind turbine blade sections into a bike pump track! 🚴‍♂️😮It was on display at the IDE faculty square last few weeks.
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@DenizSayinbas, also a project member, had a great day at work thanks to it. 🍃

@kmasania.bsky.social #windenergy #circulareconomy

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