CHEMARTS Cookbook !
The Chemarts Cookbook, the product of an almost decade-long collaboration between the university’s School of Chemical Engineering and School of Arts, Design and Architecture is no ordinary collection of recipes – it offers readers a selection of science experiments to play with and create plant- and wood-based biomaterials.
Across four sections, the book takes readers through the necessary processes for creating biomaterials. Beginning with the basics of wood-based material research, readers are then given lessons in the tools, ingredients and methods required to safely conduct the experiments (while some are recommended for the home, others require more special equipment and are not).
From there, the experiments are split across different themes including: hard, soft, flexible, transparent and printed materials, as well as papermaking and fibre making. There is a further section on “growing” materials.
