5th ICNF - Conference Paper and Poster¶
Bio-Polymer with Natural Fillers as Bio-Composites for Handheld 3D Printing
5th ICNF, International Conference on Natural Fibres - Materials of the Future, organized by Fibrenamics and Universidade do Minho
This study was based on the Open-source Hardware assignment, aproved by blind double peer-review, presented and published.
It was a collaboration with my Fabricademy coleague Rebecca Luise Breuer, PhD, from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands, and my supervisor Gabriela Forman, PhD, from Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the collaboration with CIAUD, Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa; and research group REDES Research and Education in Design.
This work is financed by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the Strategic Project with the references UIDB/04008/2020 and UIDP/04008/2020, and by PhD Research Scholarship FCT 2021.04708.BD.
Abstract¶
This study explores the potential of organic waste as a filler for bio-composites. Alginate as a biopolymer was considered for application through a 3D extruder. A qualitative methodology was used. In order to quickly study results, a novel extruder was developed from a previous open-source 3D extruder model. Several different experiments with bio-composites using sodium alginate and organic waste as fillers were completed with success and utilizing a novel handheld 3D printer, revealing feasibility. Results equally show the importance of Fab Lab communities (i.e., open-source hardware, material recipes) in providing for support, fast data or solutions and lesser time operations.
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