Materials
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What all these have in common is these
materials
are structured at the nano scale, and they have a DNA sequence that codes for a protein sequence that gives them the blueprint to be able to build these really wonderful structures.
These viruses are long and skinny, and we can get them to express the ability to grow something like semiconductors or
materials
for batteries.
Basically, by controlling the genes, you can control multiple
materials
to improve your device performance.
So I hope that I've convinced you that there's a lot of great, interesting things to be learned about how nature makes materials, and about taking it the next step, to see if you can force or take advantage of how nature makes materials, to make things that nature hasn't yet dreamed of making.
So as a fashion designer, I've always tended to think of
materials
something like this, or this, or maybe this.
What I'm not suggesting is that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile
materials.
So it makes the
materials
environmentally active and interactive.
And so there is this other unique material trait that these
materials
have, that they're programmably degradable.
When I was growing up, I was exposed to making and crafts and
materials
and invention on a small scale.
Now I combine them with hi-tech
materials
and engineering to create voluptuous, billowing forms the scale of buildings.
He has all these discussions with their family, and he digs through everything they have, and he finds
materials
to make work.
So within my own work, I use a broad range of
materials
and tools.
And the reason we see mines is because there's a lot of valuable raw
materials
that went into making all of this stuff in the first place.
And it's becoming increasingly important that we figure out how to extract these raw
materials
from these extremely complicated waste streams.
The good news is we are starting to recover
materials
from our end-of-life stuff and starting to recycle our end-of-life stuff, particularly in regions of the world like here in Europe that have recycling policies in place that require that this stuff be recycled in a responsible manner.
Well it's predominantly because metals are very easy to recycle from other
materials
and from one another.
So it's very easy for either humans or machines to separate these metals from one another and from other
materials.
So the traditional ways of separating
materials
just simply don't work for plastics.
So about 20 years ago, I literally started in my garage tinkering around, trying to figure out how to separate these very similar
materials
from each other, and eventually enlisted a lot of my friends, in the mining world actually, and in the plastics world, and we started going around to mining laboratories around the world.
And because we're not breaking down the plastic into molecules and recombining them, we're using a mining approach to extract the
materials.
One of the
materials
that can do this is a remarkable material, carbon, that has changed its form in this incredibly beautiful reaction where graphite is blasted by a vapor, and when the vaporized carbon condenses, it condenses back into a different form: chickenwire rolled up.
Mixing African materials, such as we have, with
materials
from elsewhere.
You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance
materials
known to man.
What that means is, we consider
materials
when they go into products and also when they get used, and, at the end of their life: When can they be used again?
And as a
materials
scientist, what I've been tracking over the last couple of decades is how companies are getting smart at thrifting, how they're able to understand this concept and profit from it.
If there's a building down the block which is being demolished, are there
materials
there that the new building being built here can use?
Can we use that, the ability to understand that all the
materials
available in that building are still usable?
So it's a simple process of changing from a cut and sew, where typically between 20 and 30
materials
are used which are cut from a large cloth and then sewn together or even sometimes glued, they changed it and said that they just knitted the shoe.
They used 1600 of the
materials
on the left.
So, in this case, nanocellulose, which is basically one of the very fine building blocks of cellulose, which is one of the
materials
that makes trees strong, you can isolate it, and it works very much like carbon fiber.
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