TY - JOUR AB - Vertical farming may solve the problem that in many regions of the world, more area would be necessary to produce food, than it is available. Especially in large cities and other densely crowded areas, vertical farming can provide an efficient and eco-friendly way to feed people. While indoor vertical farming plants are usually highly automatized, outdoor approaches are usually less professionally setup and thus often prone to drying-out, in this way disturbing of even destroying the plants grown in such setups. Here we report on semi-automated irrigation systems, combined with different textile substrates to reduce the risk of fully dried substrates, in order to make inexpensive, successful vertical farming systems available for everybody. AU - Dirkes, L AU - Massanés, J D AU - Böttjer, Robin AU - Storck, Jan Lukas AU - Ehrmann, Andrea ID - 1621 IS - 1 JF - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering SN - 1757-8981 TI - Outdoor vertical farming on textile substrates VL - 1031 ER - TY - JOUR AB - While 3D printing was in former times mostly used for rapid prototyping, nowadays it is also used for rapid manufacturing. To overcome the problems of relatively low production speed and in several cases insufficient mechanical properties of 3D printed objects, 3D printing can be combined with larger-scale production processes, e.g. by directly printing on textile fabrics. To combine the advantages of both materials, e.g. tensile strength of a woven fabric with stiffness of an imprinted layer, the adhesion between both partners under mechanical load has to be investigated. Here, we use tensile tests to examine maximum forces, elongation at break, wearing out of the composites and the adhesion under maximized or repeated tensile stress to examine the applicability of such composites for sports shoes etc. AU - Ayvali, M AU - Bussieweke, L AU - Druzinin, G AU - Korkmaz, M AU - Ehrmann, Andrea ID - 1622 IS - 1 JF - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering SN - 1757-8981 TI - 3D printing on warp-knitted fabrics VL - 1031 ER - TY - JOUR AB - Vertical farming may solve the problem that in many regions of the world, more area would be necessary to produce food, than it is available. Especially in large cities and other densely crowded areas, vertical farming can provide an efficient and eco-friendly way to feed people. While indoor vertical farming plants are usually highly automatized, outdoor approaches are usually less professionally setup and thus often prone to drying-out, in this way disturbing of even destroying the plants grown in such setups. Here we report on semi-automated irrigation systems, combined with different textile substrates to reduce the risk of fully dried substrates, in order to make inexpensive, successful vertical farming systems available for everybody. AU - Dirkes, L AU - Massanés, J D AU - Böttjer, R AU - Storck, Jan Lukas AU - Ehrmann, Andrea ID - 1295 IS - 1 JF - IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering SN - 1757-8981 TI - Outdoor vertical farming on textile substrates VL - 1031 ER -