7. BioFabricating Materials¶

Welcome back! This week is all about exploring biomaterials, composite materials, and kombucha.

It is about seeing the potential of these materials and how they can be used across different fields. This week has been really fun and full of exploration and things I never thought about before!

References & Inspiration¶

I found many interesting bussiness and material experts in this feild and some of the inspiration i found could go to these videos below .

Process and workflow¶

Gelatine Bioplastic¶

Gelatine-Bioplastic Recipe¶

POLYMER	PLASTICIZER	SOLVENT	ADDITIVE	Notes
GELATINE 48g	GLYCERINE 12g	WATER 240g	Coffee Ground 3g( or more)	It can be semi flexible when it n not 100% dry and hard when it is fully dry

Agar-Agar¶

Agar is a compound known as polysaccharide, extracted from red algae.

It is considered the best vegan alternative to an animal-based gelling agent like gelatine. Agar agar – is the Malay name for the red seaweed from which the powder is extracted.

Among the others, agar is colourless, odourless and tasteless and preserves waterproof properties. It is indeed insoluble in cold water.

Agar-agar Recipe¶

POLYMER	PLASTICIZER	SOLVENT	ADDITIVE	Notes
AGAR AGAR 5g	GLYCERINE 15g	WATER 250g	FOOD COLOURING 1g	Flexible material

Alginate¶

Alginate is made by combining sodium alginate, water, glycerine and a curing agent: Calcium chloride.

Calcium has the ability to form 2 bonds which will hold the alginate into a polymer.

Alginate Recipe¶

POLYMER	PLASTICIZER	SOLVENT	ADDITIVE	Notes
Alginate 12g	GLYCERINE 20g	WATER 200g	sodium chloride hydrate 10ml	optional to add 10ml of sunflower to have flexible bio-plastic

Kombucha¶

Kombucha is produced by fermenting sugared tea using a Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria & Yeast SCOBY commonly called a "mother" or "mushroom".

Needs to wait for this mother kampucha to grown in the tea water made previously -following the ingresient above "grow fabric in kichen" it could need 3 weeks or a month to be fully grown and ready to be used . it will be used in scaffoled week

Laser Cut - Biomaterial¶

I searched for a photo related to rumi to try it with cut on the bio material (Gelatine Bioplastic) to be drawn on with low power in laser settings.