Some recommended reading

Material Health: Design Frontiers

Parsons Healthy Materials Lab

Designing Lightness

Adriaan Beukers & Ed Van Hinte

Flying Lightness, Promises for Structural Elegance

Adriaan Beukers & Ed Van Hinte

Material Matters series

Victionary

WA: The Essence of Japanese Design

Rossella Menegazzo, Stefania Piotti & Kenya Hara

Materiology: The Creatives Guide to Materials and Technologies

Daniel Kula