Materials and Processes

a growing list of materials

general resources

• Material Archive by swiss and german design academies materialarchiv.ch

specific materialss

• fluidic systems

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics
  • laminar flow / reversible fluids video
  • mercury beating heart link

• chemical systems

• chemical computer

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_computer
  • usov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) computer
  • The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis ( A. M. Turing )
  • https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing.pdf

• organic computing

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_computing

• raw minerals

• crystals

• plastics, polymers, waste

• soft robots

• flexinol/nitinol

• kinetic mechanisms

• biomaterials

• plants

• fungi

• Anthotypes

  • https://www.alternativephotography.com/anthotypes-anthotype-process/
  • https://www.melaniek.co.uk/

• bio plastics

  • cellulose acetate
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulose_acetate
    • Turning paper into plastic

• etc.