NEW SILK: Exploring design-science collaboration for new materials
Text by Kirsi Niinimäki, Camilla Groth & Pirjo Kääriäinen New Silk is a 4-year material research project conducted at Aalto University aiming to produce new silk-like materials in synthetic biology. The project is inspired by how spiders produce their cobweb – a material with properties surpassing existing synthetic materials. The New Silk project combines the […]