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E-textiles and smart textiles have sustainability challenges related to recycling and reuse. ATLAS researchers are investigating novel materials and techniques to simplify how we can separate and recover valuable materials from textile waste.
NPR interviews Utility Research Lab director, Michael Rivera, on biofibers research for use in sustainable textiles.
Researchers from ATLAS Institute's Unstable Design, THING, Living Matter and Superhuman Computing labs presented four papers, including three that received 鈥淗onorable Mention鈥 awards, at the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '22).
Exploring biofoam as a Material for Tangible Interaction, authored by Eldy S. Lazaro Vasquez, Netta Ofer, Shanel Wu, Mary Etta West, Mirela Alistar and Laura Devendorf 聽introduced聽the DIS audience to biofoam, a water soluble and biodegradable material that聽can be made conductive.