Kunal Masania
@kmasania.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in Bio-inspired Matter @shaping_matter @AETUDelft @TUDelft | @ETH_en @ImperialCollege @FHNW Alum. | Alpinist🏔️ in 🇳🇱
http://www.shapingmatterlab.com
http://www.shapingmatterlab.com
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🧬I attempted RNA isolation on some grass from outside the faculty and obtained two perfect 18S and 28S rRNA bands...
So, my 10 failed attempts on my own sample were due to improper lysis, after all... I'm happy to figure out it wasn't my dirty RNase-hands...😅
#PhDlife #molecularbiology #TUDelft
So, my 10 failed attempts on my own sample were due to improper lysis, after all... I'm happy to figure out it wasn't my dirty RNase-hands...😅
#PhDlife #molecularbiology #TUDelft
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🧬I attempted RNA isolation on some grass from outside the faculty and obtained two perfect 18S and 28S rRNA bands...
So, my 10 failed attempts on my own sample were due to improper lysis, after all... I'm happy to figure out it wasn't my dirty RNase-hands...😅
#PhDlife #molecularbiology #TUDelft
So, my 10 failed attempts on my own sample were due to improper lysis, after all... I'm happy to figure out it wasn't my dirty RNase-hands...😅
#PhDlife #molecularbiology #TUDelft
Reposted by Kunal Masania
Happy Halloween from SML! The only contamination we're allowing in the biolab this season is ectoplasm! 👻🧫
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Happy Halloween from SML! The only contamination we're allowing in the biolab this season is ectoplasm! 👻🧫
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Check out this cool paper from @sschyck.bsky.social that answers an unexpected question: How fast can hematite swim?! 🌊
#ActiveMatter #Microswimmers #SoftMatter #AppliedMaterialsToday ~IN
#ActiveMatter #Microswimmers #SoftMatter #AppliedMaterialsToday ~IN
How fast can hematite swim? 🏊♀️
We show that simple calcination can greatly enhance the photocatalytic-driven motility of hematite microswimmers. Now out in Applied Materials Today!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ActiveMatter #Microswimmers #SoftMatter #AppliedMaterialsToday
We show that simple calcination can greatly enhance the photocatalytic-driven motility of hematite microswimmers. Now out in Applied Materials Today!
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ActiveMatter #Microswimmers #SoftMatter #AppliedMaterialsToday
Enhancing the active motion of hematite microswimmers
The demand for autonomous, self-propelled active particles is rapidly growing in soft matter research, driven by their potential applications in cargo…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Check out this cool paper from @sschyck.bsky.social that answers an unexpected question: How fast can hematite swim?! 🌊
#ActiveMatter #Microswimmers #SoftMatter #AppliedMaterialsToday ~IN
#ActiveMatter #Microswimmers #SoftMatter #AppliedMaterialsToday ~IN
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🌳 Check out these two happy faces! Kimon and Elijah finished their bachelor's theses last week! 🌿
It was a lot of fun to guide them in the process and to have them working on my project. All the best with the next step, guys! 🪴
#PhDlife #plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials
It was a lot of fun to guide them in the process and to have them working on my project. All the best with the next step, guys! 🪴
#PhDlife #plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials
July 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🌳 Check out these two happy faces! Kimon and Elijah finished their bachelor's theses last week! 🌿
It was a lot of fun to guide them in the process and to have them working on my project. All the best with the next step, guys! 🪴
#PhDlife #plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials
It was a lot of fun to guide them in the process and to have them working on my project. All the best with the next step, guys! 🪴
#PhDlife #plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials
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Saurav presented his latest work, developed with Sid Kumar, Prakash Thakolakaran, and Jovana Jovanova, at ESMC 2025 in Lyon and MARSS 2025 at Purdue! He showed how mechanics, machine learning, and additive manufacturing create the next-gen piezoelectric metamaterials 🦾👨💻
@saurav-sharma.bsky.social
@saurav-sharma.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Saurav presented his latest work, developed with Sid Kumar, Prakash Thakolakaran, and Jovana Jovanova, at ESMC 2025 in Lyon and MARSS 2025 at Purdue! He showed how mechanics, machine learning, and additive manufacturing create the next-gen piezoelectric metamaterials 🦾👨💻
@saurav-sharma.bsky.social
@saurav-sharma.bsky.social
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October 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
SML'ers won the Lustrum Photo Challenge for the Aerospace Faculty's 85th Anniversary! We 3D printed fungi for this super fun challenge. Here's some behind the scenes action as well. 📸🍾🎉🍄
@kmasania.bsky.social #AerospaceEngineering
@kmasania.bsky.social #AerospaceEngineering
May 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Milestone alert 🥂
SML's Knight in Shining Armour, Sarah, officially knighted her ChemE comrade Reece on April 15th — from labs to vows, what a plot twist 💒🎉 Big cheers to the newlyweds and lots of good luck and happiness for your future!
@kmasania.bsky.social @sschyck.bsky.social
SML's Knight in Shining Armour, Sarah, officially knighted her ChemE comrade Reece on April 15th — from labs to vows, what a plot twist 💒🎉 Big cheers to the newlyweds and lots of good luck and happiness for your future!
@kmasania.bsky.social @sschyck.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Milestone alert 🥂
SML's Knight in Shining Armour, Sarah, officially knighted her ChemE comrade Reece on April 15th — from labs to vows, what a plot twist 💒🎉 Big cheers to the newlyweds and lots of good luck and happiness for your future!
@kmasania.bsky.social @sschyck.bsky.social
SML's Knight in Shining Armour, Sarah, officially knighted her ChemE comrade Reece on April 15th — from labs to vows, what a plot twist 💒🎉 Big cheers to the newlyweds and lots of good luck and happiness for your future!
@kmasania.bsky.social @sschyck.bsky.social
what a #dreamteam!
Last week was a lot of fun—we helped organise workshops for #TUDelft Girls' Day!
High school girls tried 3D printing chocolate on cookies, made Prince Rupert drops, isolated DNA, and loads more cool stuff.
Hopefully, we sparked some curiosity and maybe even inspired a few future #WomenInSTEM ✨ ~IN
High school girls tried 3D printing chocolate on cookies, made Prince Rupert drops, isolated DNA, and loads more cool stuff.
Hopefully, we sparked some curiosity and maybe even inspired a few future #WomenInSTEM ✨ ~IN
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
what a #dreamteam!
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It was fun to pitch my work on 3D printing of lab-grown wood at the EPS Annual Meeting!
The people from @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social are an amazing brainy bunch with a lot of great input and ideas. 🌱
Thanks for the support @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social! #plantscience
The people from @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social are an amazing brainy bunch with a lot of great input and ideas. 🌱
Thanks for the support @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social! #plantscience
April 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It was fun to pitch my work on 3D printing of lab-grown wood at the EPS Annual Meeting!
The people from @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social are an amazing brainy bunch with a lot of great input and ideas. 🌱
Thanks for the support @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social! #plantscience
The people from @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social are an amazing brainy bunch with a lot of great input and ideas. 🌱
Thanks for the support @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social! #plantscience
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Thanks for saving the tree in front of my office window, guys!
It did get me wondering whether we could have made living rope-tree #composites. Time to write a grant @kmasania.bsky.social...?
#plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials
It did get me wondering whether we could have made living rope-tree #composites. Time to write a grant @kmasania.bsky.social...?
#plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials
🌳Mu and Alex saved the tree outside our office window from slow strangulation, just in time for the spring! 🌴
Great job guys, saving this #engineeredlivingmaterial!
@m-amani.bsky.social @alexluijten.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social #plantscience #ELMs
Great job guys, saving this #engineeredlivingmaterial!
@m-amani.bsky.social @alexluijten.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social #plantscience #ELMs
March 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thanks for saving the tree in front of my office window, guys!
It did get me wondering whether we could have made living rope-tree #composites. Time to write a grant @kmasania.bsky.social...?
#plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials
It did get me wondering whether we could have made living rope-tree #composites. Time to write a grant @kmasania.bsky.social...?
#plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials
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We have two new vacancies to join our research team at TU Delft! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX
1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX
February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We have two new vacancies to join our research team at TU Delft! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX
1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX
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How are wind turbine blades manufactured? Last week, we had the opportunity to find out how the Suzlon group manufactures their wind turbine blades on a visit with the NXTGEN Hightech Composites 3-Zero Defect consortium. It was super enlightening, thanks to everyone involved!
February 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
How are wind turbine blades manufactured? Last week, we had the opportunity to find out how the Suzlon group manufactures their wind turbine blades on a visit with the NXTGEN Hightech Composites 3-Zero Defect consortium. It was super enlightening, thanks to everyone involved!
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This week saw SML taking a well-deserved recharge on the slopes of the beautiful french alps!🏂 The beginning of a new tradition... With freshened heads we're now back to work! 👩🏼🔬🔬🧪🌱
February 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This week saw SML taking a well-deserved recharge on the slopes of the beautiful french alps!🏂 The beginning of a new tradition... With freshened heads we're now back to work! 👩🏼🔬🔬🧪🌱
Reposted by Kunal Masania
Welcome Winston Lindqwister (Post-Doc) and Jimmy Cheng (as phD) to SML! Winston (left) will be making multi-scale computational models of hierarchical fungal engineered living materials 🍄 👩💻 while Jimmy is going to be researching Bioinspired Grippers 🤖
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#bioinspiredgrippers #Multiscalemodelling
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#bioinspiredgrippers #Multiscalemodelling
March 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Welcome Winston Lindqwister (Post-Doc) and Jimmy Cheng (as phD) to SML! Winston (left) will be making multi-scale computational models of hierarchical fungal engineered living materials 🍄 👩💻 while Jimmy is going to be researching Bioinspired Grippers 🤖
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#bioinspiredgrippers #Multiscalemodelling
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#bioinspiredgrippers #Multiscalemodelling
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Congratulations on your super successful MSc graduation Aster Tournoy, with a cum laude! 🎉🥂Aster developed a fault detection system for small-scale 3D printers that can identify 12 common printing errors using computer vision with up to 97% accuracy.
📸courtesy - Aster Tournoy
@kmasania.bsky.social
📸courtesy - Aster Tournoy
@kmasania.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Congratulations on your super successful MSc graduation Aster Tournoy, with a cum laude! 🎉🥂Aster developed a fault detection system for small-scale 3D printers that can identify 12 common printing errors using computer vision with up to 97% accuracy.
📸courtesy - Aster Tournoy
@kmasania.bsky.social
📸courtesy - Aster Tournoy
@kmasania.bsky.social
We have two new vacancies to join our research team at TU Delft! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX
1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX
February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We have two new vacancies to join our research team at TU Delft! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX
1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY
2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein.
lnkd.in/enK8-UKj
lnkd.in/eS3USYxX
Back to the office after a few days away, to find this note from a student. ❤️ makes all the hard work worthwhile! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social @ingonettersheim.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Back to the office after a few days away, to find this note from a student. ❤️ makes all the hard work worthwhile! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social @ingonettersheim.bsky.social
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✈️Safe trip home Napat! 🚀Napat visited our group for the past six months to 3D print emulsions all the way from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
It was great having you around! We figure you will not miss the Dutch winter weather... ⛈️ #3dprinting #emulsions
It was great having you around! We figure you will not miss the Dutch winter weather... ⛈️ #3dprinting #emulsions
January 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
✈️Safe trip home Napat! 🚀Napat visited our group for the past six months to 3D print emulsions all the way from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
It was great having you around! We figure you will not miss the Dutch winter weather... ⛈️ #3dprinting #emulsions
It was great having you around! We figure you will not miss the Dutch winter weather... ⛈️ #3dprinting #emulsions
Thanks to @ec.europa.eu Horizon magazine for this cool article about our work! projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m... @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
From brain maps to living bridges: the innovations set to reshape life in 2025
Whoever thinks research is not exciting might be in for a surprise. In 2025, we could witness genetic decoding of the human brain, collect solar energy in space, and walk across a bridge built of elec...
projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu
January 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Thanks to @ec.europa.eu Horizon magazine for this cool article about our work! projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m... @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
Brilliant end to the year with an amazing team! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Brilliant end to the year with an amazing team! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
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youtube.com/shorts/tanH4... Check out this YouTube video about our research on mycelium based composite #ELMs @kmasania.bsky.social
New aerospace and building materials could repair themselves thanks to fungi and bacteria
YouTube video by HORIZON: the EU Research & Innovation magazine
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December 18, 2024 at 5:09 AM
youtube.com/shorts/tanH4... Check out this YouTube video about our research on mycelium based composite #ELMs @kmasania.bsky.social
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🚀Super proud of Wouter, the first master's student I had the pleasure to guide through his master's thesis! He did a really cool thesis on 3D printing of bioinspired, bacteria-embedded ceramic composites. #engineeredlivingmaterials #3Dprinting @kmasania.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 9:01 AM
🚀Super proud of Wouter, the first master's student I had the pleasure to guide through his master's thesis! He did a really cool thesis on 3D printing of bioinspired, bacteria-embedded ceramic composites. #engineeredlivingmaterials #3Dprinting @kmasania.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
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🪴A couple of months ago, we received an NWO-XS grant to explore the 3D printing of lab-grown wood. Stuff is cooking in the lab... stay tuned! 🔬🚀 Find out more: t.co/tfvPI0Yqsq @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 9:35 AM
🪴A couple of months ago, we received an NWO-XS grant to explore the 3D printing of lab-grown wood. Stuff is cooking in the lab... stay tuned! 🔬🚀 Find out more: t.co/tfvPI0Yqsq @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social