Porous materials

Dutch startup Plasticiet create recycled plastic terrazzo for use in interior and furniture design.

Once you've shut down the water source and electricity, you may be staring at puddles and wondering, "What now?" Now it's time to assess and do water damage repair—and do it quickly! Wet materials start developing very serious problems like mold after around 24 hours. You don't have time to wait.

At the intersection of design and circularity and creating products that absorb sound, soft, pliable, or porous materials make good acoustic insulators.

Aerogels are highly porous solids having a low density. These materials feature nanoscale pore sizes and are considered as superior insulation materials.

Nanoparticles found in foetal brains and hearts, but impact on human health is as yet unknown

In a study published in Nature Scientific Reports, researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and the University of Cambridge have built a sheet of nickel with nanoscale pores that make it as strong as titanium, but four to five times lighter.

Sipho Mabona (previously) folds, crimps, and puckers sheets of cotton to form geometric artworks. The artist dyes the porous material with natural substances like indigo and Maclura tinctoria (mulberry), which creates organic gradients and alters its texture. He then utilizes origami creases to transform the cotton’s structure and shape, sometimes working in response to current affairs. For example, the red pieces (shown below) are a response to Black Lives Matter and “also of biographical…

Two Swedish designers have renovated a strip club in Stockholm to create a workplace where walls are embellished with concrete set against bubble wrap.

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