3D打印生態比基尼:可以清理海洋污染

The world's oceans are full of beauty, but they're also full of pollution. Industrial, agricultural and residential waste all make their way into the oceans, not to mention oil spills and waste from deep-sea mining sites.

我們驚歎海洋的美麗，也感嘆海洋污染，各種工業、農業和生活廢物流向海洋，還有泄露的原油和各種深海礦採廢棄物。

The Sponge Suit bikini, designed by UC Riverside electrical engineering professor Mihri Ozkan, is designed to absorb pollutants from the ocean as its wearer swims around in the sea. It just won first prize in the Reshape15: Wearable Technology Competition.

海綿比基尼，一款旨於吸收海洋污染物的泳衣，由加州大學河濱分校電子工程學教授Mihri設計，穿戴者只要在海里遊一遊泳、劃一劃手就能清理污染物。該設計獲得了2015年重塑可穿戴技術競賽一等獎。

In practical terms, the suit wouldn't make much of an impact. However, it does demonstrate the effectiveness of a material designed by Ozkan and her husband, fellow electrical engineering professor Cengiz Ozkan, along with Ph.D. students Daisy Patino and Hamed Bay.

從實用角度看，該泳衣不會有多大影響。然而，該泳衣卻證明了研發者研發的這種材料的功用和有效性。

The material, on which development began four years ago, is called Sponge. It is designed for cleaning up oil and chemical spills and desalinating water. It is a water-repelling and highly porous carbon material that is light and flexible. It absorbs everything except water, and can absorb up to 25 times its own weight, depending on the density of the material absorbed.

這種海綿體的材料的研發工作始於4年前。研發之初是爲清理海上泄露的石油、化學品以及淡化水的。這是一種斥水、多孔的碳材料，其重量輕、質地柔軟，能吸收除水以外的任何東西。取決於被吸收物的密度，它能吸收高達其自身重量25倍的東西。

The idea of adapting the material into a wearable came from architecture and design firm Eray Carbajo, based in New York and Istanbul. The Eray Carbajo team, Pinar Guvenc, Inanc Eray and Gonzalo Carbajo, worked with Ozkan at her laboratory to design the swimsuit.

將這種材料應用到可穿戴設備的理念是由建築設計公司 Eray Carbajo提出的，該公司總部設在紐約和伊斯坦布爾。這一團隊的成員和Ozkan在她的實驗室完成了這款泳衣的設計。

"The form of the Sponge Suit is inspired by the super-porous, mesh-like structure of the Sponge material. The final form of the 3D print shell was obtained through the various iterations of the same undulating form," the team wrote. "The filler amount and the allocation were identified by creating several design alternatives, considering the form and the ergonomics of the human body, while pushing the limits in translucent swimwear design."

海綿泳衣的形式是受海綿材料多孔、網狀結構的啓發而產生的。通過相同波段的反覆實驗，我們確定了3D打印塑模的最後形式”，這一開發團隊說到，“關於填料物的含量和分佈，我們設計了好幾個設計方案，同時考慮到人體形態和工效這些因素，最終研發了這款半透明泳裝設計。”