Podcasts about dmat

Un calcestruzzo che si auto ripara, rimarginando cricche e fratture prima che possano degenerare diventando irrecuperabili, aprendo la strada alla corrosione e all’ammaloramento delle opere in calcestruzzo armato.È quanto ha messo a punto DMAT, società approdata al mercato solo da pochi mesi dopo il tipico percorso da start-up, e che a Rebuild – in corso a Riva del Garda in questi giorni – ha presentato i risultati del proprio lavoro in un convegno dedicato alla sostenibilità dei materiali nel settore edilizio.Ospite Paolo Sabatini, CEO e Co-fondatore di DMAT

In this episode of Bharatvaarta, Roshan talks to Saurabh Mukherjea for an in-depth discussion on India's economic prospects, the transformative impacts of political and economic policies over the last two decades, and the rising number of new DMAT accounts. They explore the key themes from Saurabh's book 'Behold the Leviathan', touching on India's macroeconomy, market investing strategies, and the socio-economic shifts impacting the nation. The conversation delves into the consequences of educational and healthcare investments, the disparity between the North and South, and the evolving entrepreneurial ecosystem. Additionally, they discuss the impact of digital public infrastructure and direct benefit transfer schemes, and the future challenges and growth potential of India's middle class. Saurabh also provides valuable investing insights, shares personal anecdotes, and reflects on the importance of adaptability in the rapidly changing economic landscape. Topics: 00:00 Sneak Peak 00:51 Introduction 01:53 Capitalism vs. Socialism in 1947 03:01 The Impact of Education and Policy Choices 05:54 Digital Public Infrastructure and Political Vision 07:40 The Rise of Women and Non-Elite Entrepreneurs 11:14 Challenges and Opportunities in the Indian Economy 17:27 Direct Benefit Transfers and Welfarism 21:58 Formalization and Access to Credit 26:02 Economic Growth and Income Inequality 34:30 Challenges to India's growth 39:30 Lessons from China and the Role of AI 46:33 Policy Interventions and Future Growth 49:39 Employment Linked Incentives (ELI) 50:37 Role of Conglomerates in India's Economy 53:17 Rise of Challenger Companies 57:23 Investing in the Indian Market 01:09:10 Principles of investing 01:18:42 Personal Insights and Reflections

Hurricane Helene's remnant brought tropical storm winds and heavy rains to western North Carolina, devastating communities in its path. Two ENA members - Asheville resident Andie Slivinski and Nycole Oliver, who was part of DMAT deployment to the region - join the ENA Podcast to talk about the lead up to Helene and the challenges with providing care and serving the community in the storm's aftermath.

東京都医師会救急委員会委員長平成立石病院院長・大桃丈知先生 巨大地震への医療対策「DMAT〜首都直下型地震」See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

「「極限の状況で耐えて…」124時間ぶり救出の女性(93)搬送の医師「次に繋げられてほっとした」能登半島地震」　能登半島地震発災から5日後、124時間ぶりに93歳の女性を搬送した「DMAT」が、「責任重大な中、次につなげられてほっとした」と大仕事を振り返った。1月6日夜、石川・珠洲市の倒壊した家屋で行われた救出活動の様子を、現地で支援活動をしているNGO(非政府組織)が撮影した映像。発災から5日後、124時間ぶりに93歳の女性が運び出された。珠洲市から金沢市の病院に女性を搬送したのが、長野・中野市の北信総合病院の災害派遣医療チーム「DMAT」。北信総合病院 災害派遣医療チーム「DMAT」・酒井健司医師「長い時間、のども渇いて極限の状況で耐えていらっしゃった方ですので、患者さんの血圧とか顔色とかおしっことか、にらめっこしながら少し点滴やったりとか、そういう状態で搬送した。大丈夫? と言ったら『大丈夫』というぐらいの会話で」およそ4時間かけて金沢市の病院に到着し、女性を引き継いだ。北信総合病院では、現在も輪島市に「DMAT」を派遣している。

Pablos: There's this idea that was just published that you could produce concrete and make it stronger by adding charred coffee grounds to the mix. And this is some research out of Australia. So concrete, if it's not obvious, is like the most used material on the entire planet, aside from oil, which we burn. Cement, is in everything, and it's this like staggering scale problem. Partly because of its contribution to greenhouse gases, right? So when you make cement, you're burning some shit to make a bunch of heat to make the cement and you need that heat and there are ideas to decarbonize cement by electrifying cement plants. But then there's this chemical process going on, which is the bulk of the carbon emissions. And there's just no way to get rid of that. So that's kind of the lay of the land. Interestingly, about half of all the cement in the entire world is made in China. That country is basically made of cement. This is one of the major targets for trying to do reductions of carbon emissions. And these guys figured out how to use coffee grounds. It's not totally clear to me that they're using, uh, used coffee grounds, I presume that's the case, because there's 10 billion Kilograms of used coffee waste every year that mostly ends up as biomass rotting in landfills. So this is worth solving. I thought this was kind of interesting. You can't just take the coffee and throw it in the cement because the oils and stuff in it will seep out and actually make the cement fall apart. They invented this pyrolyzing process where you basically heat up the coffee grounds to a specific, pretty high target temperature, around 500 C, I guess. That'll get rid of the oils presumably, and makes it into an additive you can just throw into the cement mix and it makes it 30 percent stronger. So I got two things that are kind of interesting, related to this. We Have a company our fund backed called DMAT, and these guys figured out how to make cement that's lower carbon, but the way they do it, is they solved this 2000 year old mystery in material science, which is, how did the Romans make cement? Ash: I was going to bring that up. Pablos: Yeah. Cause they made the, the Pantheon to like two millennia ago and it's still there. It's unreinforced concrete in a seismic zone. And then they, somehow got busy, watching Netflix or something and got bored and forgot all about how to make cement. And then nobody's been able to figure it out ever since. Ash: They were just looking at the colosseum. They were like, Hey, I'd rather look at the lion. Maximus Aurelius or whomever. And then that's it. They're like, forget it. Pablos: Look at the cool lion. Oh shit. The lion ate the guy who knows how to make the cement. Ash: Literally probably what happened. Pablos: That is literally probably what happened. So anyway, I got this team at MIT that figured it out. Ash: It was self healing, right? Pablos: We figured that out a little while ago. It's self healing because what happens with cement is it fractures, water seeps into the cracks and then destroys the cement from the inside out. And that's what's happening to our bridges and everything else we made. And so to make it stronger and handle that, we load it up with steel rebar. So it's steel reinforced, and then it still only lasts 50 years. The Roman cements, apparently lasting at least 2000 years. And what happens is it just gets stronger because when it cracks, water seeps into the cracks and it activates these lime deposits that are trapped in there. And so then the lime fills the crack and seals it up and heals the cement. Presumably the colosseum is just getting stronger over time. Now we know how to do that. So we can make cement that lasts virtually forever, use less of it, use less steel, and the kicker is, it's about 20 percent less CO2, out of the box without even trying. That's pretty dramatic considering the, the scale of the problem and the lack of other practical ways of decarbonizing. So these might be compatible, right? You might be able to also use this coffee additive. What I like about this is that cement is such a big thing. Most people just take it for granted. They don't know how. Intensive this is from a carbon emissions standpoint and the scale of it. this. You know like we can actually make things way, way better. with some of these ideas. Ash: And the way they were doing it, the Romans had volcanic rocks, so they had this ability to automatically have the little bubbles in it. But I think what's interesting is that, some people are like, oh, can we put plastic? Isn't that where we just got in trouble with microplastics? Let's solve one problem and then really screw up something else. The idea I was thinking is maybe this is where the coffee ground becomes like the aeration, right? Cause the whole structure was that as the bubbles popped, that was how the lime. Seeped back in, right? The water combined. Pablos: I think that was one of the theories that was debunked. I'm not positive, but I think that was the, like the prevailing idea, or it was kind of a half baked idea of like how this happened. And I think that is not what actually, it's nothing to do with the volcanic rock after all. Ash: It wasn't the volcanic, right? They had a couple , right? One was like some guy was trying to do bacteria. five, six years ago. That was the other crazy one, which was like, we will just have a living organism inside. The other question is, during production, can you trap, can you use it to just trap the stuff? Like, if you look at, was it clean, right? If you look at those guys, Pablos: So that's what DMAT solved. And they do it with this process called hot mixing. Which apparently was considered dumb for, I don't know, centuries or something. And so nobody tried it. Apparently using hot mixing they can get the lime deposits optimally trapped in the cement. I don't know all the details. Ash: I like it. Pablos: Yeah, so we'll get them on the podcast sometime and have them explain all the all the ins and outs. But yeah, pretty cool stuff. Ash: The challenge with almost all of these carbon reduction technologies is scale. Oh, hey, we're going to take carbon out of the sky. And it's like, okay, what did, what was the impact? Well, it's like half a car. Pablos: Right because the sky is like the most entropic source of carbon there is. Literally, the number 400 parts per million. Well, let's see. If you had a haystack, and you had, 400 needles and, a million pieces of straw, good luck finding a needle. It's literally, the hardest possible place to get carbon. If you want to, sequester carbon, the thing to do would be to just, leave the fucking coal in the ground. Where it's, the highest density of carbon you could find. So yeah, it's, it's kind of idiotic. Most of these things kind of solve themselves if you solve energy. If you had like a shit ton of free energy, then yeah, you could go do carbon capture from the atmosphere, but, otherwise it's pretty painful. Ash: The problem is, yeah, like you said, unless you can turn it back into like a diamond or something, like you said, put it back into coal. These magma guys are, are cranking. Maybe we can use those guys. You've heard of the magma guys? Pablos: What's the magma guys? Ash: These guys were doing the near magma experiment. They're like, we're just going to go 6, 000 feet, like just a little over a mile. What's a mile? 5,280 feet? So you just go a little bit into the mantle. Just tap into that hyper geothermal. Pablos: I don't know what you're talking about. Ash: Oh, so there's a project, just came out a couple of days ago that they revealed that they have a timeline on 2025. They're going to do two. One is an open magma bubble, it's in Iceland and then they're going to do another one on top of it. They're going to build like a little station and they're going to go straight down. This is poking the bear, I would say. Pablos: So they're basically trying to do a man made volcano. Ash: Yes, yes, that's the, that's the way to think of it. Pablos: Iceland doesn't have enough volcanoes. Ash: There's not enough problems where you could just suddenly drill a hole and burst the pimple of God, right? I don't Pablos: People are worried about AI, and here we are trying to make a cousin for Eyjafjallajökull. Ash: I like it because someone's like, "there's infinite heat." And I'm like, "yeah, but it's kind of down there for a reason." Didn't work out too well for a lot of people, right? Pablos: I don't understand, I guess if you succeeded at drilling that hole, then I think you would have basically the same thing as the makings of a volcano. Ash: Yeah, but they're trying to contain it, right? They somehow feel like, like they could drill in a place... Pablos: You're going to have to cycle it because if it cools, even if the magma comes up and cools, it's just going to plug your hole. Ash: So the point is that they have to get a turbine to magma, magma rotating. It's wild. It's going to be interesting. just liked the idea that, that someone's literally poking the bear. Pablos: Oh, they definitely should try. Ash: Cause you know, we talk about fusion being risky, but this one I just feel has a lot more problems. Pablos: Yeah, I think they're just gonna, the magma is just gonna plug the hole. Ash: No, they've got, they've got, some ideas. Yeah, well, it is pressure. It's under pressure. That's why I keep calling it a pimple. Pablos: Yeah, that's why volcanoes get made, right? Ash: That's why they gotta go to Iceland. But, the interesting thing is, if you could technically, if you could maintain pressurization all the way up to the top, right, then it can stay magmatic and you could technically build some sort of, high velocity magma drive. That's, what they're thinking of. And that will just keep cycling. Cooling, but just spinning this turbine. Pablos: What do you do with the magma that comes up hot? Ash: It becomes like a, a river. Pablos: You run the turbine, but then where does it go? You gonna pump it back down? Ash: Yeah, it's as if you were in a magma flow, right? So magma continues to move. It continues, it has a lot of movement, which people don't realize. Look, the minute I heard drill 6,000 feet into a thin crust lava magma I sort of went, Hmm, this cannot end well. That's, that's the way I looked at it. But who knows? Pablos: But it's just Iceland, so you know, there's only like 130,000 people there. They're tough though. If anybody can handle it... Ash: Don't you remember? Didn't, they stop all transatlantic flights? You remember right? There's like a little Ash: cloud and, so just Iceland, but it's, it's literally on the jet stream. We Have a few airplanes crossing right over Iceland. No more going to Europe or vice versa. Pablos: Yeah, well, we overdid it anyway. Europe is basically just like a suburb of the U.S. now. Ash: And Brexit. So, you know, Pablos: There's a lot of people who are trying to figure out how to decarbonize cement and it stalls out in part because there's like four or five thousand cement plants around the world, and they all cost $100 million to build in the first place. A lot of the ideas for decarbonizing cement require building a new plant. And even if you could build one, you're not going to build 4,000 of them. They're Just non starters. And that's part of why I like DMAT is that they can integrate in any cement plant with basically zero capex. You can just go in and upgrade, turn some knobs, and make a new formula. So, that's super cool, and hopefully this coffee based additive would have that property as well. Ash: I think what's interesting is just the coffee part of all this conversation. Pablos: If I go back to that article, it says that there's, 10 billion kilograms, which is 22 billion pounds of coffee waste a year. I presume this is post consumer grounds. Ash: This is probably commercial coffee grounds that they can track using, like, Starbucks. It doesn't include what we take home. Pablos: So it's at least something like three pounds of coffee grounds per human, for every man, woman, and child on Earth. I don't even drink coffee. So somebody else is doing double. The other one that we, got excited about and backed is this, startup called Marvel Labs. What's exciting there is they figured out how to use the used coffee grounds as an input material for 3D printers. That sounds like kind of a cute thing, but the truth is it's staggering implications. And it's because 3D printers, they're called rapid prototypers because we used them in labs and they were very expensive and impractical for a long time. And then in 2007, one of my buddies helped start MakerBot, and I was an advisor for MakerBot, which was the first consumer 3D printer. And so we thought we were gonna eventually build farms of these things like AWS, you'd just have a data center full of MakerBots and you'd wire them up to the "buy now" button, and whenever you clicked "buy now," a MakerBot would print your stuff and then print a box around it and then print a FedEx label on it. It would show up in the mail. Obviously that didn't happen, and here we are 15 years later, and you don't buy anything on Amazon that's 3D printed. There's two big reasons. One is they're one pixel printers, so they're super slow, and that makes it expensive. And then the other part of it is that the input materials are expensive, so you've got these high quality filaments, plastic filaments and things that are expensive. At the end of the day, you're competing with injection molding, which is like the cheapest way of making anything on Earth. And so, it hasn't worked out. There's a couple of exceptions. So for example, with metals, 3d printing of metals has worked out pretty well for two reasons. One, they're higher value parts. So you're printing, you know, jet parts and rockets and stuff. But also the technique in the printers is it's a powder bed, so you have this bin of powder, you run over it with a binder, like glue, from an inkjet head or a laser or something to sinter it together, and then, you pick up your part and shake it off, and you've got this part that was printed in a bed of dust. It's actually a very elegant way of making a 3D printer, and it's faster, because they're more like layer at a time instead of pixel at a time. Anyway, so what Marvel Labs did is they adapted that style of printer, which is fast, but the input material is these used coffee grounds and what the effect of that is, is now they can print stuff out of coffee. They're making all kinds of stuff. Sinks and light fixtures and bicycles and things. And the parts come out of the machine. They're made of coffee and then they just powder coat them with paint or metalize them so they look like metal and you can't even tell that it's made of coffee. And so this whole thing works awesome, but the main reason that it's important , and the reason that we invested, is that it flips the economics. So now, these parts that Marvel Labs is making, they've reshored manufacturing, they manufacture stuff in the U. S., they do it fully automated. And the parts are cheaper than doing it in Asia. That's what's exciting to me. They're also printing with seaweed. They're printing with sawdust. All the technologies they invented to make it work are about, printing with biomass in general. They're kind of the kingpin. Now we can get this whole vision together of producing things on demand in 3D printers in the U. S. Ash: It's interesting because several things, right? One is, like you said, it's not just, the on demand. All of our strategic risk starts to change, right? Think of what happens when, we get to a point where we're having another pandemic or, I don't know, they go after Taiwan. Supply chain changes if you're suddenly local, right? As long as we can get enough coffee into the system, we have enough of our own source material. Pablos: Ha, Ha, ha, ha. As a matter of national security, Americans are being asked to drink more coffee. Ash: It's a national security imperative that you get a frappuccino. Pablos: Well, I found out China just surpassed the U. S. as having the most Starbucks locations. Ash: China did. Frightening. I mean, Japan, Starbucks, whole different story. I was just looking at the botanical Starbucks in Japan, Starbucks is its own, own different conversation. But I was going to say that when you think about all of this, the implications for logistics, and one thing I wasn't sure on, on the way that they produced, what was their binding material? Because I know they're, one of the things they were talking about was biodegradability. Pablos: Marvel Labs has invented a variety of different binders. One of them is entirely sugar based. They use it with seaweed and they can make these biodegradable parts. Which is really cool, and then they have some top secret binders they invented that are super cool and they're not ready to announce them yet, but it's awesome. Ash: I saw some of the pieces. Pablos: Yeah. Oh, that's right. Ash: I got to actually play around with it. I, I think what's amazing to me is that the idea that you can cut production time. I don't know if it was an experiment or if they still do it, but remember there was Amazon Now. Where like they had little trucks going around and, and they had like USB cables or like whatever you needed, like that minute. Pablos: circulating your neighborhood With, that was loaded with the things that they predicted, were going to be bought. Ash: Yeah, 100%. That's what it was, right? They predicted that, everyone in Palo Alto needs like an extra USB cable. And they had one and you could get it like one hour delivery. Pablos: But that truck could just have a 3D printer in the back. Ash: That's exactly it. Right? Like imagine, how big are these things? How big are the printers? Pablos: The printers are, I'd say like 80 percent of the printer is the print bed by volume. So, if you have a printer the size of a refrigerator, 20 percent of it is gantry and other crap. And that's pretty typical of 3D printers, I guess you could say. And at least in a powder bed style printer. And the rest of the volume is printable. So, these printers are actually quite large. And one of the nice things about a powder bed printer is that you could just print a whole bunch of parts at once. You just fill up the bed with parts because they're just floating in powder because the powder is like the support material as well. It makes it easy to do big batches of stuff. If you're printing coffee mugs, you can print it and you got a fridge size printer. You can print, a couple hundred mugs or whatever all at the same time. And then, they just come out of there. I'd say 3D printing's future, over the next 10 years or so will be really focused on figuring out how to make multi material printers. There's a little bit of work on that now, especially trying to be able to do conductive materials. It'd be great to be able to print something like a game controller or a pair of headphones or something, have some of the wires printed in it. Ash: Maybe you have the recycled aluminum just like get blasted and powderized. I know of a magma plant coming up that might be able to... Pablos: Can we make a magma, printer? Ash: You take the aluminum, you feed it into the magma god and it comes out powderized. Pablos: Well, most aluminum comes from Iceland anyway. Aluminum is essentially made of electricity and they have access to cheap, clean electricity, Ash: That's the, the, secret, right? So we have infinite power and then they're just producing the conductive dust. One of the things I was thinking is like, how do you market this, right? Because we have to get a behavioral change on consumption. It's so easy to go with fast fAsh:ion, fast goods. We're addicted, I don't know if you've ever seen Wish? Pablos: Oh, uh, I know what it is, but I've seen Temu. I signed up for Temu. I ordered some shit before I found out it was obviously Chinese spyware app. And I um, I, bought some shit Temu cause it was so cheap. They're like paying you to take this stuff. And then it was like worse than infomercial products. Like I got these things and they're the cheapest possible things. And they had used like trick photography. I bought this bottle of, a cleaning product, I have it right here. I'm looking at it. It's this bottle called Foam Cleaner. I'm like, oh cool, I'll use that to clean the shower. I don't know what, kind of bug eye lens they must've used to photograph this thing. But when it showed up, the bottle itself is literally a 60 milliliter bottle, which is, that's like the size of, it's like a large bottle of nail polish, Ash: It's like, It's like, not even a perfume bottle. Pablos: And then it's got the full size spray head that you'd have on a bottle of Windex or something on it. So this whole thing, it looks like a joke. Nobody would ever do this. I've never seen a bottle this small with this big, like the spray head by volume is bigger than the bottle. Ash: So basically you've got a bobblehead cleaner. That's what you're saying. Bobblehead but foam cleaner. That's it. That's it. We can market it. Pablos: Yeah. I mean, I'm afraid to spray it because you know, like if I pull that trigger more than three times, the bottle will be empty. Ash: I'm sure it's not a neurotoxin or anything. Pablos: Okay. But anyway, the point being. Yeah, it's Temu and Wish and all this bullshit. I don't know about consumer behavior change. You would know more than me. What are the odds that we're ever gonna be in a world where people buy less shit? Ash: It's not that we buy less. I'm trying to figure out if we can shift them, right? Think about it. At one point, we were all obsessed around Gore Tex, it was like the magic, right? We had just left our class on osmosis and we were like, wow, it's like osmosis in a fabric, we were excited. Pablos: Maybe explain how Gore Tex works. Ash: Gore Tex's whole idea was about breathability, where the pores on the fabric were supposed to for air to go out, but water not to come in. Pablos: Which works because... Ash: It's surface tension allows the droplets to hold more together, so they're bigger than the water vapor molecules going out, right? So, so the molecular sizes are different. So you can create this sort of barrier. Now there's 50 versions of this to Sunday. But, Gore Tex was, was something which became a brand name, right? I don't know if it was before Intel Inside, but it was kind of the same concept, right? Saw a little label on Gore Tex. Pablos: It's like the Dolby of outerwear. Ash: It is. It was the Dolby of Outerwear. So I think somehow we've got to build that kind of reputational or brand concept, For example, if it's the seaweed and sugar and everything nice, right? Pablos: Okay. I see. Full circle brand where it's like "buy as much of this shit as you want. Whenever you're done we're just gonna turn it into the next shit you're gonna buy." Ash: it's not just recyclable... Pablos: It's like infinitely recyclable. Recycling is a is a joke. Ash: And the amount of energy and stuff that it takes is is sort of crazy, on that as well, right? So that's that's one of the, the sort of big, big problems that that happens with it. And I think one of the challenges is that we've got to figure out a way. That, something like what we're talking about in terms of, this new product, this new mechanism, this new process can be Gore Tex'd. Or Dolby'd, and a little bit more than like this is recyclable. I think we're kind of over it, right? Like we've seen the little symbol, we don't even know what's going on anymore. I know that in most countries they have like, at least like five bins. I think most Americans can't figure out like. What's up? There's a blue box. Pablos: You could imagine a version of this where, ultimately everything is just made of, some atoms, right? They have to come from somewhere. And then the energy it costs to, move them around and stick them together. So. You know, if you sort of just take that approach, you could say, okay, this stuff is made of this much joules and, this many atoms, like you could basically measure everything that way. Then you could say like, all right, well, the total cost of ownership in a given product could be added up that way. The cost of like mining all the shit, the cost of transporting around the world, the cost of, burning stuff to make it, whatever it takes. If you added that up for any object, it would probably be staggering. In the long run, you would, you, what you would like to do is track things that way and then be able to say, okay, this is kind of a full circle product, like an apple is probably like the closest you get maybe to a product that is low impact, it grows, we there, there's some energy cost in transporting it from a farm to your mouth, and then you eat it, you throw out a quarter of it as biomass. Ash: When you say an Apple, not your iPhone. Pablos: Oh yeah, I'm talking about like an actual physical apple. The kind you can eat. Yeah. Not an phone. Granny Smith, not a Macintosh. Ash: But maybe that's the score, right? Pablos: I think your Intel inside becomes... Ash: is it net negative? Is it net positive? Pablos: It's net negative or it's like close to the threshold of about an apple instead of being, at the threshold of like about a Tesla. Ash: That may be the interesting way to do it? So maybe a dynamic symbol is the way to think of it, right? So instead of the old Intel Inside or Dolby Atmos or whatever's going on, or Gore Tex, maybe it's about the level. Is there a number? Is there a score? Lasered in or 3D printed into the object itself or, or anything that you look at, it just tells you that this has a small number or a small something that people can understand that's better or higher or whatever. Pablos: Energy star. Ash: I look at something like calories. Like years and years ago, we all started getting obsessed and that definitely the generation that grew up with cereal boxes, who had nothing better to read. And we didn't have a iPhone to scroll. We read cereal boxes. We knew more about niacin and potassium in your cornflakes than any human should ever know. Pablos: It's true. I read a lot of cereal boxes. Ash: That's what you'd read. You read, you'd read the cereal box. When they changed the USDA standard for what you can see inside, the bigger format I remember that was like a big change on the packaging design. That was something where we could see the calories and then we realized, per standard serving size or whatever it was. And I think that at some point, the same thing has to happen, right? Each object that we consume or buy, can have that. There's actually a company. That we're looking at, called Love, like seriously called love.com. Uh, uh, I won't go into much more about that, but they're actually trying to change this, like specifically change this idea. They're trying to build an Amazon. First of all, they have love.com. I sort of tossed out the idea that it's powered by love. And that way, it can have a score, each thing you're buying. They curate what's allowed to be sold on there. So it's like an Amazon, but like, we're going to get rid of Pablos: So all you need is love. Love is all you need? Ash: It's true. That's their eventual goal is to go head to head with Amazon. A billionaire multi time, entrepreneur who's kicking this off. What's interesting, though, is I think people will start to recognize this. Pablos: Yeah, you could do some big branding campaign around, certified green or whatever, but it seems so like all these things are so gameable. I mean like calories, even like, I understand this as a kid, but now that I know what a calorie is like... Ash: It's totally gameable. Pablos: Oh my god, that's a totally fake thing that we made up that's, like, barely a measure of anything. Ash: That's why I picked it. I was going to say that with good numbers come good evil, right? Are you drinking a 12 ounce can of Coke? Was it like eight ounces? What did they do? It's interesting how it became a complete nonsense number? It mattered. We learned later that maybe the mix matters, and it wasn't about the sodium. And there's a lot of little bits that didn't matter. The question becomes, can you build something genuinely? There's another company, we invested in, Dollar Donation Club. And what's interesting about them is, when Seth, who's the founder, said, "Hey, I'm going to see if we could create the world's first super philanthropist." The idea that if we all gave a dollar a month, technically it's billions of dollars. You can make a lot of changes. He said," where am I going to give the money? I don't want to be another money place. I want to be something where I can see the impact." So he built a giant impact map of things he wanted to do. And he said, "okay, I want to know exactly how many kilos of microplastic are removed for my donation." Like, I don't care that I donate $1, $2. I was like, I'm willing to go and take out a kilo. Well, it turned out he can only get to like, I forget what the number is like 11 or 20 charities. It took that long and that his professional teams, like when they vet out what the charity really does. Pablos: Yeah. Ash: Almost no one qualified. So I think this is the unfortunate thing that's going to happen, right? So if our coffee friends bring it full circle, if Marvel can really like just crush it. Like they can demonstrate there's an actual true cost reduction I'm talking about from Guangzhou to, Columbus. By the time it gets there, like what actually happened and then the return leg, right? Like what happens on the back if, if that's actually a real score. That we can defend. Maybe that's what Marvel has to do. Pablos: The way it should be done probably is kind of like, consumer reports. There ought to be, like, life cycle metrics made for, the product coming outta Marvel Labs versus its competitor that came from Guangzhou. Here's your Samsung versus iPhone versus, Nokia or whatever and somebody does the research and figures out; this is the mining footprint; this is the shipping cost. This is how much, energy was burned. The factory is running off of a coal plant versus a nuclear reactor or whatever. Ash: Like Energy Star, but like it actually makes sense as opposed to Energy Star. Pablos: Yeah, and that could be given a score in joules that just ranks these things against each other. Ash: But we're talking about three ideas here, right? So that one idea is to get somebody to come out there and say, look, fundamentally, product life cycle measurement is something someone should go build, like someone should, whether it's independent of Marvel or not, somebody should do it. And then different manufacturers or, or whether it's a 3D printer of type company or someone else should go in and say, look, let's show you why we are the lowest score, the highest score, whatever the, whichever one's considered the better thing. And then we have to create education and marketing on that, to say, Hey, if you're not doing this, you, you are literally creating damage. Pablos: There must be initiatives like this that we don't know about. An interesting thing to consider is an iPhone is made of whatever, 2000 components. Some of them are like screws that Apple sourced and didn't manufacture. Where was the metal for the screws mined? Where's the factory for the screws? How far are the screws traveling to get to the iPhone factory? All that kind of stuff. And so you would, eventually if this were fully played out, when you design an iPhone and CAD, it would just tell you, where your screws are coming from. We already have the environmental impact score for those screws. Pick the ones that have the lower score. Ash: So this is like an SAP thing. So go back to, Fast moving consumer goods. So in the FMCG world, one of the things that's really interesting is something called, smart label and smart label is interesting because it said, Hey, like ingredients don't cut it. I want to know like really what's going on, it goes really deep, you can dive into the label, but where did you source it? Like, is it really honey from here or what was going on? I think Nestle, I think some of the biggest players all support it. Procter and Gamble, all these guys are on smart, smart label. Now that's interesting because you're almost already there, for those guys, you're pretty close, but that's for food. Hopefully that's mostly biodegradable. Otherwise we have other problems in life. Pablos: Yeah, that's interesting. Maybe that could be extended so that all the, the ingredients of my, headphones... Ash: Exactly. Could you extend that construct? I actually think back to another company, from years ago, it is one of my patents, from a while back. it was a company called, Black Duck Software. You were talking about, as you're sitting there with your CAD, I was thinking of, open source. Remember it was like, ""are you using something that's gonna infect the rest of your project?" When you're coding in Eclipse or something and you're like, oh, let me just grab this little... Pablos: You accidentally scoop up some GPL library... Ash: Yeah, it's an LGPL or something. It happened to Fidelity. Their entire mortgage calculator, their entire mortgage algorithm had to be open sourced because they used a website plug in. So, they eventually invested in the company. Obviously, they invested in us. But what was good is that, when you, were able to sit down and look at the project, it would tell you immediately, like, if you put this in there, you will like, have to open source your print driver. Pablos: All that should just be in CAD. A lot of CAD software has a plug in to tell you how much it's going to cost to machine that part that you made based on the design. And it could easily tell you how much material it's going to take and how much material cost there's going to be. But you could extend on that and say, you chose these screws. Here's how much they're going to cost. Here's what the lead times are. All that's in SAP already. And then it tells you, this is the environmental footprint of the screws you chose. Ash: And now you can tie that into some exchanges or B2B sourcing companies and just say, okay, give me a scenario. I want to automatically reduce my carbon or my, my total footprint. Where else could I source, right? So maybe instead of titanium screws, I have to manufacture for this new titanium iPhone from like some Russian mine where the titanium lives. Pablos: be seven Web3 companies trying to do this already. Ash: I think what they miss. And this is something that I think is an interesting part of the journey, right? That you and I also take is it sometimes great technology and great back end stuff doesn't hit the front. The only reason calories don't matter today because we woke up and realized that somebody paid off the cardiologists to get us to eat margarine and told us that sugar was, okay and fat was terrible. That was programming, right? That was maybe we need some good programming. I mean, we got programmed the wrong way. Maybe we need to program people. To see the right thing. And I don't know that we could be seen as altruistic or that we're necessarily not, not commercially motivated. I think that there's some way that today because of information and speed of information, I think we can create some level of transparency, like you said. And then we can turn around and say, back in the day, I couldn't tell you where my, millet was coming from for the food. Today we can, Smart Label will tell you literally where that food comes from. I think we could do something fun, fun with that. Someone should go do that. Pablos: Yeah. Someone should go do that, which is, one of the main points of doing this podcast is that hopefully we'll come up with ideas that somebody else should go do.

We know you've been waiting for this. The day Sean is finally allowed to talk matter transmitters to his heart's content. Be transported into speculative story worlds, where sex romping may happen on a young man's fictional spaceship, murderers get creative with transmitters, and where Alex and Amy are increasingly scared of ever setting foot into a car again... In this episode Sean leads Amy and Alex through the horrifying, mesmerising, inspiring, mind-bending possibilities of the matter transmitter in fiction. Beam me up, Scotty! And I better not be looking at my ass when I get there...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We know you've been waiting for this. The day Sean is finally allowed to talk matter transmitters to his heart's content. Be transported into speculative story worlds, where sex romping may happen on a young man's fictional spaceship, murderers get creative with transmitters, and where Alex and Amy are increasingly scared of ever setting foot into a car again... In this episode Sean leads Amy and Alex through the horrifying, mesmerising, inspiring, mind-bending possibilities of the matter transmitter in fiction. Beam me up, Scotty! And I better not be looking at my ass when I get there...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Le immagini satellitari possono aiutare i paleontologi a identificare le aree ricche di fossili. Un team di ricerca guidato da Elena Ghezzo, paleontologa dell'Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, ha testato diversi metodi di tracciamento da satellite dimostrando come la tecnologia possa aumentare esponenzialmente l'efficacia delle ricerche paleontologiche sul campo. I monumenti in calcestruzzo degli antichi romani sono talmente resistenti da arrivare intatti fino ai giorni nostri, come nel caso del Pantheon. A indagare il segreto alla base della resilienza di questo materiale è una ricerca del MIT di Boston che ha identificato le caratteristiche di longevità. A partire da questo studio, la start up italiana DMAT ha iniziato a sviluppare una tecnologia innovativa per creare nuove tipologie di calcestruzzi durevoli e sostenibili, ispirandosi proprio all'antica ricetta romana. Come ci spiega Paolo Sabatini, Ceo di DMAT.

This is the second part of my interview with Brandon Sedgwick, a participant in my DMAT training program. Listen to the first part here.In this conversation, we talk about how things went following his HSCT (hematopoietic stem cell transplantation) treatment, how it felt to come home, the post-procedure crash he experienced, and the improvements to his health that he has noticed.Links and Resources:Listen to Ep. 67 of Move It Or Lose It: Brandon Sedgwick - HSCT Prep - Getting Ready for Upcoming Stem Cell Therapy Listen to Ep. 74a of Move It Or Lose It: Brandon Sedgwick's Experience of Stem Cell Therapy Part 1Find out more about my DMAT Fitness Training programVisit MS DisruptedYou can find Kathy Chester at:msdisrupted@gmail.comdisruptfitnessgym@gmail.com moveitorloseit109@gmail.com Connect with @msdisrupted on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok Here are some additional products that help Kathy deal with beating the Heat and Migraines.  Take advantage of the coupon code.Koldtec - Cool Head WrapKOLD10To save $10 off every item in-store.2 items = $20 savings3 items = $30 savingshttps://www.koldtec.com/ Cold bean bag Releafpack. 15% discount use code Disrupt15https://www.releafpack.com 

Welcome to Living Well with MS. In this episode, Geoff meets with Kathy Chester, a certified fitness trainer and podcaster with MS.   Keep reading for the key episode takeaways and Kathy's bio.  Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to hear our latest tips and news about living a full and happy life with MS. And if you're new to Overcoming MS, visit our introductory page to find out more about how we support people with MS.  Bio:  Kathy Chester hosts the Move it or Lose it Podcast and leads Women Who Disrupt MS, a support group facilitated through the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (MSF). She is the owner and lead trainer of Disrupt Fitness Gym.  Fitness has always played a big role in her life. She became an aerobics and boot camp coach and went on to manage various studios. In 2015, she established Disrupt Fitness Gym: a program combining circuit and interval training to create the most efficient workout.  Kathy was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis more than 20 years ago. Her MS symptoms began with numb hands and feet, migraines, and cognitive issues. The DMT's and MS treatments she has tried include Avonex, steroids, chemotherapy, Tysabri, and now, Ocrevus. Taking these medications further confirmed her belief that movement and exercise is crucial for optimal health, strength, and mobility.  Her expertise has allowed her to train people with MS all over the world. She developed a new program called DMAT (Disrupt Move and Transform). DMAT targets joints and muscles to slow down advancement of the disease. The program is based on a one-on-one or group session. Both standing and seated moves are demonstrated and trained in real-time. The results are increased strength and confidence in everyday movements which leads to more independence, and therefore, a better quality of life.  Selected Key Takeaways  Understanding exercise to improve MS symptoms  As the MS changed, and as I grew in my knowledge and more certifications, then I was able to understand what moves needed to be done to strengthen our bodies, our legs, the foot drop, keeping the MS hug away, and things like that. So I started working with the MS and the autoimmune world.  The benefits of live exercise classes – giving feedback I also do it [exercise classes] via Zoom, where there could be seven to 10 people, and I'm showing seated moves and standing moves. I'm able to watch and say 'Hold on. Stop that. Let's do this instead.' So I can watch [and] ask, 'Is it cool enough where you are? Do you have water?' And I think that's a personal touch that I'm able to give.  Producing a podcast   I wanted to do a podcast for a long time. The gym just took so much of me. I listened to several different podcasts for years and tried to get my [own] idea of what I wanted it to be. I decided I wanted to have guests on with autoimmune diseases, a lot of them have MS. And then to get something that is inspirational, something that they do, and then have a doctor come on and really talk about the issue.  Related Links:  Try an Overcoming MS exercise video  Find out more about Kathy's Disrupt Move and Transform exercise program   Listen to Kathy's podcast Move It or Lose It   Don't miss out:  Subscribe to this podcast and never miss an episode. You can catch any episode of Living Well with MS here or on your favourite podcast listening app. If you like Living Well with MS, please leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you tune into the show. Feel free to share your comments and suggestions for future guests and episode topics by emailing podcast@overcomingms.org.  Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to hear our latest tips and news about living a full and happy life with MS.  If you enjoy this podcast and want to support the ongoing work of Overcoming MS, you can leave a donation here. 

Back in September we featured a chat with Brandon Sedgwick, a participant in my DMAT training program. In the earlier interview, Brandon was getting ready to go to Mexico for HSCT (hematopoietic stem cell transplantation), an intense chemotherapy treatment for MS.In the first of a two-part interview, we talk about his biggest fears immediately before starting the treatment, the facilities in Mexico, the care he received, and the HSCT process.Links and Resources:Listen to Ep. 67 of Move It Or Lose It: Brandon Sedgwick - HSCT Prep - Getting Ready for Upcoming Stem Cell Therapy Find out more about my DMAT Fitness Training programVisit MS DisruptedYou can find Kathy Chester at:msdisrupted@gmail.comdisruptfitnessgym@gmail.com moveitorloseit109@gmail.com Connect with @msdisrupted on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok Here are some additional products that help Kathy deal with beating the Heat and Migraines.  Take advantage of the coupon code.Koldtec - Cool Head WrapKOLD10To save $10 off every item in-store.2 items = $20 savings3 items = $30 savingshttps://www.koldtec.com/ Cold bean bag Releafpack. 15% discount use code Disrupt15https://www.releafpack.com 

In this episode we take a look at the DMAT deployment following Hurricane Ian in Florida. Gary Christmann from IDMC comes on the show to talk about Disaster Medical Aid Team (DMAT) and how it deploys. Then he shifts gears to join the show with nurse Alicia Bean. Alicia has worked as a registered nurse in several departments throughout the Chicagoland area ranging from ICU, PACU, Cardiac Cath lab to pediatric units.

「パンデミック下におけるDMATの活動」（解説）東京女子医科大学附属足立医療センター 救急医療科 教授　　庄古知久氏（ききて）葵会柏たなか病院糖尿病センター長　　山内俊一氏

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Komiker Henrik Fladseth forteller om koronasykdom rett før ikke lov å le på hytta, om en pågående nabokrangel og hvorfor han elsker brødmat.

Bob Barteck has made a career of public service as a firefighter, EMT,  Disaster Medical Assistance Team Leader and in 2021, embracing a new role as Fire Chief in Wausau Wisconsin. Having known him since the mid 90's, I can say firsthand that he has a servant's heart and would give the shirt off his back for anyone in need. We discuss 9/11 and the impact it had on the country, specifically the firefighting and emergency response communities. He also talks at length about the time he spent working with  DMAT on deployments to Houston and Puerto Pico and the lifelong friendships that were formed in those times of crisis.As most conversations do on the HHAUSA Podcast,  we focus on Bob's love of archery and the outdoors and how it has helped him disconnect while working in a profession not immune to battles with PTSD.While the majority of our time is spent around Veterans and Active Duty Military, we want to take a moment to thank all the men and women across America who selflessly put on a uniform each day as First Responders, racing into harm's way to protect their communities. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!

Episode 225 is John Barile. John is 30 plus year Paramedic with Cary Area EMS. John has served as a firefighter, educator, paramedic, Chief, and numerous other roles in public safety. We talk about John's start in EMS, his role on National Medical Response Team, and he offers his advice to those new to the EMS world. 

《Dr. DMAT ~ 瓦礫下的醫師 ~》 原　作：高野洋 漫　畫：菊地昭夫 原文名：Dr.DMAT〜瓦礫の下のヒポクラテス〜 出版社：集英社（2010年至 2016年連載） 代理商：長鴻出版社（2012年代理） 集　數：9集（未完）※日本11集完結 DMAT全名為Disaster Medical Assistance Teams ，是緊急災難發生時的急救醫療小組，此作不僅描述了醫療人員在面對第一線的災難醫療時常見的困境，更深刻的用角色們的關係去襯托主角面臨了許多抉擇時的心境轉變與態度，是個生動又易懂的災難醫療職場作品，強烈建議成為青少年的學校必讀作品之一！ 想要推坑或是推薦作品的，或是有什麼想法的，都歡迎跟我們聯絡喔！ 收聽方式：https://link.chtbl.com/Wsc1bMxK 噗浪：www.plurk.com/otakuafterwork 粉專：www.facebook.com/otakuafterwork/ 網誌：www.otakuafterwork.blogspot.com/ 信箱：otakuafterworkpodcast@gmail.com

This week on the Disaster Podcast we talk about medical interoperability between state and federal units. Our guest is Tim Conley, a paramedic/fire fighter who is also a state DMAT member. Tim discusses putting together teams, developing partnerships with other states and organizations, and putting the IDMC concept into action at disaster events like [...] The post Medical Interoperability During Disaster Response appeared first on Disaster Podcast.

Harold Kinker, Retired Ohio Pharmacist University of Toledo College of Pharmacy Class of 1970 (BS Pharmacy Degree)  kinkerh@gmail.com When I joined the staff of Walgreens store 5323 in Toledo, OH in 2002, Harold was the pharmacy manager.  Harold was a mentor and became a friend.  Almost 20 years after meeting, we are still friends and even go out to lunch with a group of current and former Toledo-area Walgreens pharmacists several times a year.   In 2002, I worked full-time on the midnight shift “7-on/7-off” for about 12 months:  I worked one week, then had the following week off.  My hours were 10 PM to 8 AM Monday through Sunday.  I worked 70 hours and got paid for 80.  Counting vacation time, I was only required to work 25 weeks per year.  My partner on the off-weeks asked me to cover vacation for him twice.  I worked 21 days in a row on midnights each time while pregnant.  I was 24 years old. When I became a Mom, I needed to step down to part-time.  Harold helped me find a way to make it happen.  Thanks Harold!   Harold was great with pharmacy and store staff, and our patients liked him.  Harold served on a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) from 2004-2012.  He had paid deployments, similar to National Guard duty.  Highlights included helping with Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, surviving gas mask training in an Alabama “Cobra Tank," and nuclear emergency training in Nevada.  To learn more about DMAT, visit https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/responders/ndms/ndms-teams/Pages/dmat.aspx  Harold is a Volunteer Trail Patrol Walker for the Toledo-area Metroparks.  50 hours/year is the minimum commitment.  He volunteers more than 200 hours/year.  Harold walks with other volunteers 2-3 times/week, about 2 hours at a time.  Toledo has one of the best Metroparks systems in the country!  To learn more about the Toledo-area Metroparks, visit https://metroparkstoledo.com  Harold volunteers with the Veterans History Project.  The Veterans History Project creates videos of Veterans and their stories.  Multiple copies are made of each video.  Three copies go to the Veteran; another goes to the University of Toledo; and one goes to the Library of Congress.  Interested WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Afghanistan Veterans can call George or Harold. George Pugh 419-877-0600 Harold Kinker  419-868-1950 To learn more about the Veterans History Project, visit https://www.loc.gov/vets/  Harold loves retirement and enjoys vacation cruises with his wife and friends.     

Björn van der Doelen (42) voetbalde bij PSV, Standard Luik, FC Twente en NEC, maar tegenwoordig is de Parel van Brabant frontman van de bands Allez Soldaat en De Huursoldaten én eigenaar van het platenlabel Val Allemaal Maar Kapot Ik Doe Het Zelf Wel Records. ‘Als je een kers op de taart wilt, dan moet je er over het algemeen wat harder voor werken. En als je dat niet wilt dan is het ook prima, maar dan moet je achteraf niet gaan liggen mauwen dMat die kers er dan niet op zit.’ ‘Ekte verhalen’ podcast van Elitepauper. Een podcast voor, door en over misfits, cowboys, zwarte schapen, nozems, paradijsvogels,  buitenbeentjes en vrijdenkers. Wij zijn er voor de paupers en de elite. Wij vertellen ekte verhalen, over ekte mensen.

Ett sammelsurium av det förvirrade prat som pågått i 20 avsnitt, samt ett nytt virrvarr av mellansnack i den härva vi kallar vår podcast. Stort tack till er som lyssnat, kommenterat, DMat, gillat, recenserat, tipsat, delat och deltagit!   VARNING: Konsultera din psykolog, psykiater och andliga vägledare före lyssning. Kan verka stötande, kränkande och väcka känslor. IG: @ericochzigenaren Twitter: @ezigenaren E-mail: ezigenaren@gmail.com

**Jake Mills** and **Mick Coyle** get together to discuss the latest from the world of mental health. Jake joins Mick to share his thoughts on the Chancellor's remarks on mental health funding in the Autumn Budget, and offered his own perspective on DMAT's work. Find mental health services near you via **www.hubofhope.co.uk**

On this week's **Mental Health Monday**, Mick Coyle talks to **Maureen Harris** and **Kevin McDonald** from **DMAT, an organization that aims to help survivors of domestic violence.** The organization offers support to survivors in a variety of ways designed to improve their mental health, whilst also providing services for the perpetrators of domestic violence, teaching them to change their behaviour and mindset. Full details can be found on DMATServicesLtd.co.uk Follow @MrMickCoyle and @DMATLtd on Twitter. Originally broadcast October 29th 2018. Produced by John Fogarty.

Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) are a novel class of highly stable, purely organic crystalline frameworks made of molecular building blocks. For example, the condensation of boronic acids with appropriate polyols in principle allows the design of precisely controllable structures since their chemical and physical properties can be easily tuned through the selection of the building blocks. The young research field of COFs has attracted scientists due to their extraordinary and versatile properties, however, strategies to control the topology and the properties of the backbone as well as the inner surface are still not well established. With support of Prof. Knochel and his group, who contributed numerous new organic COF linkers, this thesis aims to extend the functionalization strategies for the design of Covalent Organic Frameworks. Investigation of the structural modification and the associated change in physical and chemical properties should lead to progress regarding the applicability of these materials. Employing the concept of reticular chemistry in combination with High Throughput Synthesis Techniques, the formation of a very large Covalent Organic Framework BTP-COF with 4 nm open pores was successfully carried out. The solvothermal co-condensation of 1,3,5-benzenetris(4-phenylboronic acid) (BTPA) and 2,3,6,7-tetrahydroxy-9,10-dimethyl-anthracene (THDMA) was carried out using microwave irradiation instead of conventional synthesis in an oven, thus synthesis time of BTP-COF was reduced from initially 72 h to 5 min. Extending the open pore diameter of a crystalline material to 4 nm, in combination with the resulting high accessible surface area of 2000 m2/g offers great potential to exploit organic reactions in the pores and enables the incorporation of large functional guests, such as polymers or dyes. Bearing these results in mind the scope of functionalization possibilities was expanded from the geometric extension to the chemical modification of the inner surface of COFs. Decorating the organic building blocks with small functional active groups, such as methyl-, -methoxy- and hydroxy- allowed for the successful synthesis of several organic frameworks. Chemical and physical properties of the backbone and the inner surface can be precisely tailored by chemical modification of the building blocks. In order to investigate post-synthetic modification strategies, the methyl- and hydroxy-groups were used as reaction anchor points to covalently attach molecules after framework formation. The co-condensation of benzene-1,3,5-triyltriboronic acid (BTBA) and the 9,10-dimethyl-anthracene-2,3,6,7-tetraol (DMAT) succeeded in the formation of AT-COF-Me. In a radical bromination reaction the methyl groups of an anthracene linker were successfully brominated giving AT-COF-Br without degrading the crystalline framework of AT-COF-Me. The formation of the resulting benzylic bromine was monitored with IR spectroscopy and solid state NMR, respectively. Elemental analysis results correspond to the bromination of half the -CH3 groups. Reaction of (2',5'-dihydroxy-[1,1':4',1''-terphenyl]-4,4''-diyl)diboronic acid (HTDBA) and 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexahydroxytri-phenylene (HHTP) The terphenyl-based hydroxyl substituted T-COF-OH, formed by (2',5'-dihydroxy-[1,1':4',1''-terphenyl]-4,4''-diyl)diboronic acid (HTDBA) and 2,3,6,7,10,11-hexahydroxytri-phenylene (HHTP), was tested in several nucleophilic substitution reactions. Esterification of the –OH group was achieved with either acetylchloride or in a Steglich type reaction with 4-pentynoic acid. X-ray diffraction analysis after the post-synthetic modification shows that the crystallinity of the framework was preserved. This indicates that T-COF-OH is compatible with the reaction conditions. The detection of the newly formed ester moieties in IR and in solid state NMR spectra proves the successful post-synthetic esterification of the –OH groups. Another approach to tailor functionality in COFs is to assemble monomers with distinct properties in COF synthesis. Modification of the backbone of the framework was realized with two heterocyclic building blocks. Benzothiadiazole (BTD) and thienothiophene (TT) monomers are known as building blocks of semiconducting polymers. These molecules were equipped with boronic acid or boronate ester moieties in para position. The linkers were then used in co-condensation reactions with HHTP. The synthesis of BTD-COF was carried out in a two step microwave synthesis procedure: first the pinacolboronate 4,7-Bis(4-(4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-1,3,2-dioxaborolan-2-yl)phenyl)benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole (BTDA) was cleaved with HCl, in a second step addition of HHTP resulted in the crystalline product in only 60 min. TT-COF was synthesized in a conventional co-condensation reaction of thieno[3,2-b]thiophene-2,5-diyldiboronic acid (TTBA) with HHTP; the black TT-COF showed aborbance over the whole spectrum of the visible light. Upon irradiation with light the system showed significant photoconductivity. The 3 nm pores of the hole-transporting TT-COF offer enough space to incorporate large fullerene-based electron-transporting materials such as PCBM. This inclusion leads to a significant quenching of the luminescence of TT-COF, indicating light-induced charge transfer at the interface of these two materials. The oriented growth of thin films of porous COF-10, a product of the condensation of 4,4’-biphenyldiboronic acid(BPBA) and HHTP, and TT-COF on self-assembled monomer (SAM)-functionalized gold surfaces is shown. Films grown on boronic acid terminated SAMs result in a parallel orientation of the pores along the substrate. Scanning electron microscopy was used to investigate the morphology of the films. Homogenous films with thicknesses of around 150 nm and a total coverage of the substrates were obtained. In summary, several functionalization strategies are shown to control or tune the topology and properties of Covalent Organic Frameworks. Tuning the topology and functionality to large open pore systems or intrinsic semiconductivity allows incorporation of large functional molecules and study the host-guest interactions. The post-synthetic modification of COFs offers a synthetic pathway to integrate organic functionalities, which cannot be synthesized directly by co-condensation. These strategies provide the means necessary for a precise control of the pore environment and design a porous material for specific applications. A facile and rapid method to produce thin oriented COF films will pave the way for this material to fabricate technological devices, such as photovoltaic devices, sensors of OFETs.