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Biomimicry & Materials / Chemistry
Nature is a living laboratory for materials and chemistry—where every color, texture, and transformation emerges from interactions finely tuned to sustain life. Across the natural world, matter and chemistry work in concert to achieve extraordinary functions—adapting, protecting, bonding, and cleaning—without compromising the ecosystems they’re part of.
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Biomimicry & Materials/Chemistry explores how these life-friendly strategies can inspire safer and more regenerative innovations across both materials and chemical design. This collection examines how nature’s systems inform smarter, more sustainable solutions by translating life’s molecular and structural strategies into new approaches for ingredients, materials, and design processes.
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By studying how living systems organize matter, manage microbial threats, and maintain balance within their environments, each project seeks to reimagine human innovation in ways that align with nature’s chemistry of life.
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Living Clean: Biomimetic Strategies for Life-Friendly Antimicrobials
Water-based personal care products depend on preservatives, many of which pose risks to human and environmental health. This project applies biomimicry thinking to explore how nature prevents microbial growth without harming surrounding systems, translating those strategies into life-friendly antimicrobial concepts for water-based personal care products. Guided by the biomimicry thinking process, the work moves from problem definition and functional scoping to biological research and discovery, and then to early-stage design directions that balance product performance with ecological compatibility.
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From Australian Eucalyptus plant to artificial skin
Drawing inspiration from the Australian Eucalyptus, this project explores the plant’s natural cleaning strategies and translates them into design insights for advanced material concepts. Through a Biology-to-Design biomimicry process, it moves from understanding biological function to proposing nature-informed innovations—culminating in early concepts for artificial skin.
