Development of a filamentation system to re-imagine the production of textile fibres by fermenting cellulose from bacteria and autonomously harvesting endless strands.
„There is a gap in research regarding approaches of co-designing with bacterial cellulose characteristics in order to directly bio-manufacture bacterial cellulose with textile properties.“ (Morrow et al., 2023)
Therefore my work addresses the resource-demanding production of textiles as a raw material, and proposes a new way to autonomously biofabricate and design bacterial cellulose filaments on a macro-scale.
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(Working process of automated filamentation of bacterial cellulose)
