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6. BioFabricating Materials

Research

A collaborative works by Ruby Lennox, Maria-Rigina Chatzivalasi, Julija Karas, Hala Amer, and ChungHan Lu with mentorship from Petra and Julia

  • Bioplastic a biobased polymer desived from a biomass. It is comprised of a biopolymer, plasticizer, and a solvent.
  • Polymer assemblies of identical chemical subunits, called monomers, that are linked together in the form of a chain.
  • Biobased Made of bacteria, fungi, mineral, vegetal, biosyntehtic, and animal.
  • Biodegradable Degrades in specific conditions like pH sensitive environments, thermo sensitive, and enzymes.
  • Biocompostable composted in 90 days like bacteria, mycelium, animals, etc. Crafted Casted, extruded, and/or assembled.
  • Grown from scratch like fingii, microbial, and lab grown leathers.

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References & Inspiration

Standard Recipes

Working on different Experiments in the Fablab like alginate, gelatine, bio-resin and mycelium

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Fruit Leather

Mango Leather- to dispose the trash it costs the stand owners 12E per kilo

More info found on the weekly Lecture here

Mango leather Recipe

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Mango with no additives

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Mango//Gelatine

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Mango//Gelatine//Mica Powder

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Mango//Gelatine//Mica Powder//Tea

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Mango//Sunflower Oil

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Overview material research outcomes

  • The samples where a bit thin and fragile, want to work with different ingridients and add on the mango recipe