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Circular Transitions: Textile design and the circular economy [PDF]

Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 2018
Textile designers have the potential to play a key role in the next industrial revolution; the shift to a circular and sharing economy.1 The need to create materials that are recycled and can be re...
Kate Goldsworthy, Rebecca Earley
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Circular and Sustainable Design: A systemic design model for the transition to a circular and sustainable economy

Discern, 2020
Successful and innovative design practices towards the development of more circular and sustainable products and services that are aligned with the current and future needs of our society rely on efficient practices that combine three main levels in the design and development process.
Camocho, David Geraldes, Vicente, José, Ferreira, Ana Margarida   +2 more
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Beyond Top-Down Narratives: Thick Mapping and Participatory Spatial Development in Coastal Colombia

Land
In the face of intensifying climate disruptions, coastal landscapes like Necoclí in Colombia’s Department of Antioquia are sites of both vulnerability and resilience.
Ana Elena Builes-Vélez, Lina María Escobar-Ocampo, Luz Patricia Rave   +2 more
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Gender and Sustainability in Higher Education: The Case of Female Leadership at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia)

Social Sciences
This study addresses the limited empirical evidence on women’s contributions to sustainable development leadership within higher education institutions. Focusing on Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Colombia, we employed a mixed-methods approach that
Danny Jean Paul Mejía Holguín, Ana Elena Builes-Vélez, Juliana Restrepo Jaramillo, Juan Diego Martínez Marín   +3 more
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Improving the Long-Term Mechanical Properties of Thermoplastic Short Natural Fiber Compounds by Using Alternative Matrices

Biomimetics
Wood plastic composites (WPCs) offer a means to reduce the carbon footprint by incorporating natural fibers to enhance the mechanical properties.
Renato Lemos Cosse, Tobias van der Most, Vincent S. D. Voet, Rudy Folkersma, Katja Loos   +4 more
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Sustainability in the Future of Design Education

She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation, 2023
The Future of Design Education working group on sustainability developed recommendations for integrating sustainability into higher education design curricula.
Jeremy Faludi, Leyla Acaroglu, Paul Gardien, Ana Rapela, Deborah Sumter, Cindy Cooper   +5 more
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Hydrolytic purification of industrially extracted mimosa tannin

Journal of Chromatography Open
Tannins, which can be extracted from certain tree barks, are polyphenolic compounds, that gain a lot of interest in industry, as they can be utilized to replace petroleum-based chemicals.
Thomas Sepperer, Thomas Schnabel, Alexander Petutschnigg   +2 more
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Evaluation of the thermal-mechanical properties, overall migration, wettability, and freshwater degradation of blends of polyhydroxyalcanoate copolymers

Polymer Testing
This study explores the effects of blending poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) with poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB-co-4HB)] on the thermomechanical, migration, wettability, and biodegradation behavior of biopolymer ...
Ana Carolina Lemos de Morais, Luigi Veloso Leitão, Elisa Araujo Barbosa, Renato Lemos Cosse, Corinne van Noordenne-Bos, Vincent S.D. Voet, Rudy Folkersma, Katja Loos   +7 more
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The Relationship Between Physical Activity and Left Ventricular Remodeling in Childhood Cancer Survivors Treated With Anthracyclines: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Anthracycline‐related cardiac remodeling precedes heart failure in childhood cancer survivors. The objectives of this study were to determine the relationships between patient‐specific factors, moderate‐to‐vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and cardiac remodeling.
Hari K. Narayan, Sitong Chen, F. Lennie Wong, Nathan Young, Anna Qi, Christopher Davis, Sanjeet Hegde, Nicholas Gloude, Kasey J. Leger, Kelly D. Getz, Francisco Contijoch, Kirsten Ness, Bonnie Ky, Dennis Kuo, Sheri J. Hartman, Saro H. Armenian   +15 more
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Olfactory-Interactive 4D materials from a carvone-based photocurable resin

Virtual and Physical Prototyping
The development of 4D materials has expanded adaptive manufacturing; however, most systems are limited to passive shape changes and lack interactive sensory functions.
Tao Zhang, Kunlin Chen, Kylian Janssen, Vincent S. D. Voet, Rudy Folkersma, Katja Loos   +5 more
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