🍁🍂🍁 Autumn has arrived at @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social #TUDelft #AerospaceEngineering 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

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 🦾👨‍💻 @saurav-sharma.bsky.social

🌳 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

🏐✨ 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 @kmasania.bsky.social

🧬✨ 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

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

🔬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

🔬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

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

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

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

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

🌳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

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

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

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

🌳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

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 🤖 . #bioinspiredgrippers #Multiscalemodelling

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

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! 👩🏼‍🔬🔬🧪🌱

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!

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

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. . @DenizSayinbas, also a project member, had a great day at work thanks to it. 🍃 @kmasania.bsky.social #windenergy #circulareconomy

🏠Last weekend @saurav-sharma.bsky.social and @ingonettersheim.bsky.social helped Chintan move to his new place in Delft.📦 We are sure the 1h shorter commute will result in a 10% increase in research output! Stay tuned...📈 #roomwithaview #topologyoptimization

Welcome Gustavo Asai🥳He will be working on topology optimization & computational mechanics.He can be seen hard at work on his first week! When he is not kicking ass at being a researcher, he loves to travel to eat good food. Foodies are very welcome at SML 🌮 . #topopt @kmasania.bsky.social

✈️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

November 11,2024 was a day of celebration 🎉 for SML as it's first ever PhD candidate defended her thesis with a cum laude and is now officially Dr. Caroline Houriet🥂.Read her thesis on 'Shaping Anisotropy of Liquid Crystal Polymers' here: resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d59312f... @kmasania.bsky.social

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

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

🚀Congrats to Wouter for successfully defending a really cool thesis! Why is an abalone shell stronger than a piece of chalk? Wouter researched how you can recreate this strong and tough microstructure with the help of mineralising bacteria! 🔬 #engineeredlivingmaterials #ELM #microbiology #3Dprinting

MSc graduate alert! 🎓Evelien Claassen of SML researched the spaceworthiness of 3D printed liquid crystal polymers & found that the material turns green upon exposure to space raditions. Safe to say she graduated with flying colours 📗Read more: https://t.co/6Oo2girdjw https://t.co/dSiX2tl4c6

🎃🔬 Spooking up science at the Shaping Matter Lab on the Halloween weekend! There were some eerie experiments, hauntingly good food & fun👻✨ #HalloweenAtTheLab #ShapingMatterLab https://t.co/vABTl5SoDh

So cool! 😎 Check out this awesome PhD project with @dlopezbarreiro! 🦠🧪🧫 https://t.co/DdKQbIIpJt https://t.co/KC411oFO0i

What's the link between #3Dprinted LCP and HULK? ... turns out, they both turn green after getting exposed to radiations...💚🙀 but still they are 🦾as ever! Find out more in our latest paper with @esa, @NEMATX_AG and @AETUDelft! @kmasania @CarolineHouriet #3DPrinting #Space https://t.co/uiPo2sWiYA

Huge congrats to fresh MSc graduate ir. David Beaumann from the Shaping Matter Lab. David defended his MSc thesis titled 'Material Characterisation of Mechanically Extracted Continuous Bamboo-Fibre Reinforced Polymers' on the morning of 25th September 🎉🎓 https://t.co/o715hrE3uO

Last monday was refreshing one for some of us at SML as we met up with founders of the @FloatingFarmNL to discuss developing building materials from manure at the farm & other circular projects for high-tech farm at the port of rotterdam! Very moo-tivated to collaborate! https://t.co/EH5dRy13Hq

Last week we took the opportunity to play the Game of Unspoken Things in amazing weather - a refreshing experience that helps us conduct our research in an even more close and motivating way! https://t.co/sHbEffG5ky

🤖🚀Glad we could be of assistance printing some last-minute parts for the robotics workshop at the @RoboValley 🤖🚀 Always great to help out fellow engineers! 👩‍🔬 https://t.co/Wc3bqtpIwO

This approach enables cost-effective mass printing of piezoelectric ultrasound transducers, offering a pathway to scalable and bio-compatible manufacturing of intelligent structures with built-in sensing and actuation capabilities.

Check out our new paper in @AdvSciNews AMT! We develop DIW of functional ultrasound transducers. The d33.g33 of the composite is more than an order of magnitude higher than DIW piezo composites before. https://t.co/uwqj7mzUnN #smartmaterials #additivemanufacturing https://t.co/jSUxlRjVr5

Well done Jasper on your 70.3 ironman sub 6 hour! 🏊‍♂️🚴🏃‍♂️ went like a 🦇🚀 ☺️ @AETUDelft https://t.co/YwA01DmXiY

Happy birthday @SarahSchyck !! 🥳 Thanks for the cake 🧁! https://t.co/XN8CRMNR4V

Check this out! 🦠🔬 In our freshly published review we explore how living organisms can be used to create the next generation of sustainable and functional composite materials. 🌿🍄 #engineeredlivingmaterials https://t.co/uF7ffo0XLr https://t.co/afWqWqhDxO

Yesterday, we hosted @AghnaMukherjee from ETH Zurich and learned about his brilliant work on mechanical instabilities and multifunctional structures 😍. Looking forward to future visits and collaborations. 🤝@kmasania @AETUDelft @SharmaSaurav_SS https://t.co/re7mwqX0qf

🍄🔬 Just published! Our latest review offers insights on the complex world of fungal signalling pathways and their potential in biobased material engineering. A great collaborative effort with @Bismark_PaCE ✨ Read more: https://t.co/HmGn82U210

Brilliant to have Prof Jan Wurm from KU Leuven over to share his amazing work on regenerative construction materials!! 🍄🌲🌱🦠looking for a good read 👀📖, check out “Making Trouble: Design and material activism” Inspiring stuff! @kmasania @AETUDelft https://t.co/0Pqwr2WUW9

Last week your favourite beachvolleyball 🏐 team the Sand Monkeys managed to secure third place at the ASM sports day! Healthy mind in a healthy body 🧠@AETUDelft https://t.co/5dMleRmY9s

Free popcorn for the Aerospace undergrad Lustrum, Lets go! 🍿@AETUDelft https://t.co/6Uu5Lrd4TP

🌟 Exciting News Alert! 🚀 Thrilled to share that we've been granted an NWO-XS project to explore 3D printing of cell-based wood! 🌳 Find out more about our project here: https://t.co/tfvPI0Yqsq #NWO #3DPrintingWood #SustainableFuture https://t.co/YRo23x1qVa

This past month, we welcomed four new members to our group: Swaliha, Chintan, Sourav, and Mrinal 🔥 We love to see the Shaping Matter Lab expand 😎 Looking forward to seeing all the cool things you will do! @kmasania @AETUDelft https://t.co/EQt8wHx34C