My research addresses questions at the intersection of Biodesign and Material Innovation via three domains: (1) Material Design & Culture, (2) Laboratory Practice, and (3) Material Characterization and Scalability. Specifically, my research seeks to develop emerging materials for industries such as fashion and textiles with cross-disciplinary collaborations and local/regional communities.
To do so, I leverage mixed-methods and data sources including (a) laboratory practice (design: biodesign; biology: fermentation, microbial growth; chemistry: separation and analytical chemistry; material science: characterization and testing), (b) sociocultural research (semi-structured interviews, surveys, autoethnography, participatory design workshops) and (c) research landscape methods (systematic/bibliometric reviews, meta-ethnography).
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Journal Articles
Luis Quijano, Dagmar Fischer, Raquel Rodrigues, Yuanyuan Wei
Cellulose, vol. 32, 2025, pp. 59-80
Luis Quijano, Dagmar Fischer, Tiziana Ferrero-Regis, Laura Navone
Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 2025, p. 17980
Bacterial Cellulose Cookbook: A Systematic Review on Sustainable and Cost-Effective Substrates
Luis Quijano, Raquel Rodrigues, Dagmar Fischer, Jorge David Tovar-Castro, A. Payne, Laura Navone, Yating Hu, Yao Han, Phitsanu Pinmanee, Edgar Poon, Jinghe Yang, Eve Barro
Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, vol. 9(4), 2024, pp. 379-409
Fashion's new frontier: integrating biotechnological innovation and design with bacterial cellulose
Luis Quijano, Tiziana Ferrero‐Regis, Alice Payne
International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, vol. 18(3), 2024, pp. 444–456
How do companies communicate their 'sustainable' material innovations on company websites?
Claudia E. Henninger, Taylor Brydges, Aurelie Le Normand, Shuchan Luo, Luis Quijano, Jane Wood, Songyi Yan
International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles, vol. 2(2), 2023, pp. 163-188
Luis Quijano, Robert Speight, Alice Payne
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol. 35(6), 2021, pp. 897-913
Refereed Conference Papers
Review of Recent Trends in Home-based Rehabilitation Assistive Devices Design for Shoulder Movement
Yuanyuan Wei, Luis Quijano, Yating Hu, Hao Yan, Marianella Ivonne Chamorro-Koc, Rafael Gomez, Graham Kerr
OzCHI '24, Proceedings of the 36th Australasian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2025, pp. 580–590
Refereed Case Studies
Is the Future of Fashion, Pineapples? Commercializing Biomaterials
Alice Payne, Luis Quijano
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases, Bloomsbury, London, 2023
Bacterial Cellulose: Forging Fashion as an Interdisciplinary Practice
Luis Quijano, Matalie Howard
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2020
Sourcing in Bangladesh: Deciding Which Supplier to Use.
Luis Quijano, Matalie Howard
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2019
Natural or Synthetic Dyes?: The Preservation of Indigenous Textile Dyeing Techniques
Luis Quijano, Matalie Howard
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2018
Book Chapters
Natural or Synthetic Dyes?: The Preservation of Indigenous Textile Dyeing Techniques
Luis Quijano, Matalie Howard
Fashion Businesses Cases: A Student Guide to Learning with Case Studies, chapter 5, Fairchild Books/Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, USA, 2020
Encyclopedia Article
Bacterial Cellulose and its Applications in the Textile and Apparel Industry
Luis Quijano, Alice Payne
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles, 10 - Textile Futures., Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
Book Review
[Review of the book Painted Faces: A Colorful History of Cosmetics, by Susan Stewart].
Luis Quijano
Journal of Dress History, vol. 5(4), 2021, pp. 183-185