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ORIGAMI ENGINEERING – THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SELF-FOLDING PAPER As non-renewable resources diminish and landfills fill with plastics, we increasingly need new, sustainable materials for product designs. Enter 3-D paper. “Rather than using a non-recyclable material such as plastics, 3-D paper may be the new material best suited to produce resilient objects, such as […]
PPC Faculty Associates awarded over $5M from NSERC
University of British Columbia research in areas such as wearable electronics, fish ecology and oil spills received a $9 million boost through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The funding was announced on January 9th by Greg Rickford, Minister of State for Science and Technology, along with UBC President Stephen Toope, Vice […]