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Bottle school project

The bottle school project is een organisatie waarbij men flessen hergebruikt voor het maken van muren en zo scholen op te bouwen.

In deze video wordt het uitgelegd:

http://www.bottleschoolproject.org/index.html

These striking vessels represent a best practise example of hybridization. The traditional Haitian technique of papier mache and the use of tobacco (once a common export crop) combined with contemporary design competencies produce a completely unique product. Made under the model "One Product, One Village", the Tobacco Vases are made by women in Jacmel in the community workshop Art Expressions and can be supplied in volume while accommodating the inherent variations of the hand made.

Made from papier mached tobacco leaves.

Zelf helend rubber

Een interessant onderzoek van wetenschappers waar ze geprobeerd hebben de helende eigenschappen van de rubberboom te kopiëren.



Materia rubberonderzoek

Gorilla Glass

Gorilla Glass
Source from Corning.com.

What is this used for?
It is an environmentally friendly product that uses alkali-aluminosilicate thin sheet glass. The texture is a composition of chemicals durability and strength on most applications. The sheet is both strong and damage resistant.

	Type Gorilla Glass Main material Alkali-aluminosilicate Thickness At least 0.5-2.0mm Size Available up to 1250x900mm thin s Chemical makeup HCI (5%), NH4F:HF (10%), HF (10%), NaOH Typical Uses Protective cover for electronic displays; cell phones, laptop, mobile devices, touchscreen, optical components, and high strength glass.

The material of future sunglasses

This glowing green shell belongs to a species of "cluster-wink snail" that lives in the ocean. Its special molecular composition makes it the perfect material to filter light. Already, scientists are thinking about ways to manufacture it for this purpose. The snail that lives inside this shell has the power to glow, and it illuminates as a defense mechanism when predators are near - possibly to make itself appear larger. Though its shell appears a dull, opaque yellow in ordinary light, it's actually made of a heretofore unknown material that's precisely tuned to disperse the exact wavelength of light the snails are emitting. The shell becomes almost transparent when the green bio-luminescence streams through it.

If engineers can artificially reproduce the material in this shell, we could conceivably have tinted windows, sunglasses, or optical instruments designed only to let one color of light through.

Japanese Scientists Create Elastic Water

Elastic Water could eventually replace plastic, or be used in an environmentally-safe plastic.

Bernama, a part of the Malaysian National News Agency, reports that Japanese scientists have created “elastic water." Developed at the Tokyo University, the new material consists mostly of water--95-percent--with an added two grams of clay and organic material. The resulting substance resembles jelly, but is extremely elastic and transparent.

The invention was originally revealed last week in the latest issue of the Nature scientific magazine. According to the article, the new material is quite safe for the environment and humans, and may be a “long-term” tool in medical technology, possibly to help wounded or surgically cut tissue to remain closed.

Bernama also reports that--by increasing its density--the new material could be used to produce "ecologically plastic materials," or could replace plastic altogether. This aspect is still under investigation until September 2010. However, if successful, the scientists may have found a way to make the world a little greener.