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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Check out our new publication! We demonstrate that bacteria can be used to improve the suboptimal compressive behaviour of flax fibre composites, making them more suitable for sustainable windmill blades. Pretty cool, right? 🦠 You can find here: doi.org/10.1002/adma... #biomaterials #microbiology

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Sarah Schyck @sschyck.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Happy to have been able to show off some beautiful fungi pellets at the Bioinspired GRS (in an equally beautiful location) that we are making in the @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social. It was a real pleasure meeting and talking with the many scientists there working on exciting research!

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Sarah Schyck @sschyck.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

🍄 My latest work with @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social is officially out in Advanced Functional Materials. We used mycelium & 3D printing to create some beautiful materials. Check out the paper now: doi.org/10.1002/adfm... #3dprinting #livingmaterials #mycelium

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Check out the latest paper from Sian Ying Chen, Sourav Patranabish @sourav-p.bsky.social, and Kathrin Weiland presenting a scalable, mechanically robust structural supercapacitor that balances energy storage ⚡️ and load bearing 💪. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Another new paper was published: "Multi-camera fault detection in fused filament fabrication printing" from SML'ers Shantha, Aster and Muhamad! Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Snow in Delft! Gustavo and Jimmy made a new friend :)

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween from SML! The only contamination we're allowing in the biolab this season is ectoplasm! 👻🧫

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Check out this cool paper from @sschyck.bsky.social that answers an unexpected question: How fast can hematite swim?! 🌊 #ActiveMatter #Microswimmers #SoftMatter #AppliedMaterialsToday ~IN

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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

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Ingo Nettersheim @ingonettersheim.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🌳 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 · 12/06/2025

🏐✨ 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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🧬✨ 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 · 26/05/2025

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 · 16/05/2025

🔬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 · 30/04/2025

🔬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 · 29/04/2025

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 · 22/04/2025

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 · 15/04/2025

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 · 14/04/2025

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 · 03/04/2025

🌳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 · 01/04/2025

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 · 26/03/2025

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 · 25/03/2025

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 · 14/03/2025

🌳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 · 06/03/2025

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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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 · 07/02/2025

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 · 07/02/2025

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 · 04/02/2025

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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

🏠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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

✈️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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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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

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Kunal Masania @kmasania.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🚀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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

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: t.co/6Oo2girdjw t.co/dSiX2tl4c6

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

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

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

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 t.co/uiPo2sWiYA

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

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 🎉🎓 t.co/o715hrE3uO

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

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! t.co/EH5dRy13Hq

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

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! t.co/sHbEffG5ky

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

🤖🚀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! 👩‍🔬 t.co/Wc3bqtpIwO

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

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.

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Shaping Matter Lab @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

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. t.co/uwqj7mzUnN #smartmaterials #additivemanufacturing t.co/jSUxlRjVr5

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