A big shout out to my amazing coauthors who helped me get it over the line: Mark, @sourav-p.bsky.social, and @kmasania.bsky.social. And to the @erc.europa.eu for supporting this work!

🧬I attempted RNA isolation on some grass from outside the faculty and obtained two perfect 18S and 28S rRNA bands...

So, my 10 failed attempts on my own sample were due to improper lysis, after all... I'm happy to figure out it wasn't my dirty RNase-hands...😅

#PhDlife #molecularbiology #TUDelft

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

Check out this cool paper from @sschyck.bsky.social that answers an unexpected question: How fast can hematite swim?! 🌊

#ActiveMatter #Microswimmers #SoftMatter #AppliedMaterialsToday ~IN

🌳 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

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

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

#legends! @sschyck.bsky.social @shardulbhusari.bsky.social Mrinal and @sourav-p.bsky.social

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

Love this 😍

what a #dreamteam!

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

😂 don’t get me started

Thanks for saving the tree in front of my office window, guys!

It did get me wondering whether we could have made living rope-tree #composites. Time to write a grant @kmasania.bsky.social...?

#plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials

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

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!

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! 👩🏼‍🔬🔬🧪🌱

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 🤖
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#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

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

Back to the office after a few days away, to find this note from a student. ❤️ makes all the hard work worthwhile! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social @ingonettersheim.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

From brain maps to living bridges: the innovations set to reshape life in 2025 Whoever thinks research is not exciting might be in for a surprise. In 2025, we could witness genetic decoding of the human brain, collect solar energy in space, and walk across a bridge built of elec...

Thanks to @ec.europa.eu Horizon magazine for this cool article about our work! projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m... @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

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

New aerospace and building materials could repair themselves thanks to fungi and bacteria YouTube video by HORIZON: the EU Research & Innovation magazine

youtube.com/shorts/tanH4...

New aerospace and building materials could repair themselves thanks to fungi and bacteria YouTube video by HORIZON: the EU Research & Innovation magazine

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

🚀Super proud of Wouter, the first master's student I had the pleasure to guide through his master's thesis! He did a really cool thesis on 3D printing of bioinspired, bacteria-embedded ceramic composites. #engineeredlivingmaterials #3Dprinting @kmasania.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

🪴A couple of months ago, we received an NWO-XS grant to explore the 3D printing of lab-grown wood. Stuff is cooking in the lab... stay tuned! 🔬🚀 Find out more: t.co/tfvPI0Yqsq @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

Congrats my friend and colleague @Yinyin_Bao https://t.co/4nbmUYllrY

Hey @SpaceX ! Thanks for the ride to @Space_Station for these 3Dprinted samples! @AETUDelft @Shaping_Matter @AdvPortfolio https://t.co/NlhDNUYLBz