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May 28
This is a great preamble to our next @IOM3Events #Natural #Materials Focus webinar on #Construction
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Register shorturl.at/evKma
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Jun 3
🏗️ Focus on Construction | NMG Monthly Webinar Series
🧱Explore biomaterials, mycelium structures, low-carbon homes and straw-panel systems for the future of sustainable building.
📅 17 June 2026, 1–2.30pm
💻 Free webinar
#NaturalMaterials #Construction #Biomaterials
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May 17
🕷️ A recent PNAS study found that net-casting spiders create mixed-silk metastructures: compound threads with a soft elastic core surrounded by looped fibre bundles.
🎥 Video: Wolff et al. (2026), PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2529200123. CC BY 4.0.
#BioinspiredMaterials #SpiderSilk
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Apr 28
🛠️ Naturally awesome materials, with plenty of fibre. 🌿
Join us on 20 May for the NMG Lunchtime Seminar Series: Focus on #Biocomposites, exploring how #BiobasedMaterials are shaping everything from #CircularDesign to advanced #Engineering applications.
#MaterialsScience
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Apr 16
Join us for the next NMG Lunchtime Seminar Series: Focus on Vehicles, where we’ll explore how biobased materials are being used in automotive engineering and beyond.
💻Free webinar on Zoom
🔗Register via the link in comments
#MaterialsScience #WoodEngineering #IOM3
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Mar 29
👑 Long before King Arthur, nature built its own knights in shining armour.
🪲 Beetle shells aren’t metal, but chitin composites, using helicoidal structures to deflect cracks and resist failure.
🛡️ Strength not from mass, but from architecture.
#MaterialsScience #Biomaterials
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Mar 17
🤖 Nature meets robotics
Join the NMG Lunchtime Seminar Series: Focusing on Robotics, where materials, biology & science fiction collide.
🕷️ Necrobotics
🌿 Energy from nature
🧩 Biomimetic composites
🔗 iom3.org/events-awards/ems-e…
#Robotics #MaterialsScience #Bioinspiration
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Mar 12
Don’t throw away last season’s clothes just yet. Researchers at the @univienna have found a way to turn them into new material… by growing fungi on them!
Research by @MitchellPJones and colleagues at @univienna.
#NaturalMaterials #BioComposites #CircularEconomy
#MaterialsScience
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Mar 2
To fly, you must solve a paradox: be light enough to leave the ground, yet strong enough to control the air.
Birds solved that problem with feathers.
Hierarchical structures delivering exceptional stiffness, flexibility, and resilience at remarkably low density.
#materialscience
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Mar 2
Thanks to Ning Shi for making this photo available on @unsplash 🎁 unsplash.com/photos/black-an…
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Feb 22
Some of the Renaissance’s greatest works were made with little more than pigment and breakfast.
Egg tempera is a natural emulsion that binds pigments into a tough, stable film; a bio-based composite that has kept The Birth of Venus intact for 540 years.
#MaterialsScience
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NMA retweeted
6 Nov 2025
#Bamboo Reinforced Concrete is an ill-considered concept/practice, having significant #durability, #strength and #stiffness issues and does not meet the #environmentallyfriendly credentials often attributed to it”
Find out more: bit.ly/3UMppNT
@INBARofficial
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NMA retweeted
13 Feb 2025
Save the date: 20 Feb 2025 1PM (GMT)!
Join our @NatMatAssoc monthly webinar focussing on on #Biogenic #Materials in #Construction with superb guest speakers!
Info & Registration: shorturl.at/8A2FD
@iom3 @IndiNatureCo @nmite_ac @EdinburghNapier @Cambridge_Uni @IOM3Events
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27 Aug 2024
Our webinar on 22 August featured Andy Sweetman from @NatureFlexFilms explaining the complicated bioplastic current situation. Presentation can be accessed on the @iom3 website
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NMA retweeted
7 Jun 2024
Next week, our monthly seminar will be discussing sustainability within and through surface coatings.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please sign up at the link: iom3.org/events-awards/ems-e…
#naturalmaterials #textiles #iom3 #sustainability #circulareconomy #environment
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