3D Printing

Imitating wood’s ultrastructure with 3D printing for green products

The way by which wood develops is constrained by its genetic code, which gives it novel properties such as porosity, toughness, and torsional strength....

A shocking materials technology breakthrough

The Air Force Research Laboratory in collaboration with research partners at Los Alamos National Laboratory has devised a 3-D printed polymer-based foam structure that...

3D bioprinter revolutionizes skin research

Another bit of innovation at the University of Plymouth is helping analysts build up a working skin substitute that can emulate functional human skin. The...

The ‘shine’ in gold particles has a new use in finding defects

The shine in gold has always attracted us. Now, it has a new use in finding defects in 3D printing, new research suggests. This is...

New 3D printing capabilities, paving the way for construction innovations

Scientists at the National University of Singapore, today declared the dispatch of the AM.NUS Construction 3D Printing Program to quicken the selection of 3D printing...

Now you can 3D print clay, cookie dough – or solid rocket fuel

Scientists at the Purdue University have developed a new way to 3D print extremely viscous materials, with the consistency of clay or cookie dough...

3-D printed sugar scaffolds offer sweet solution for tissue engineering

Engineers at the University of Illinois devised a 3D printer that can print detailed structures that commercial 3-D printers can’t. The printer can efficiently produce...

A 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater, moves objects

Scientists at the Rutgers University have created a 3D-printed smart gel that moves and changes shape when activated by electricity. The gel can walks underwater and grabs...

New sugar-coated nanosheets to selectively target pathogens

A team led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a process for creating ultrathin,...

3-D mapping babies’ brains

Baby brains grow rapidly in utero. Their cerebral cortex drastically expands surface area. Many studies have suggested that this rapid and essential growth is...

Augmented reality takes 3-D printing to next level

Cornell researchers are taking 3-D printing and 3-D modeling to a new level by using augmented reality (AR) to allow designers to design in...

New 3-D printing technique embeds sensing capabilities within robotic actuators

Harvard scientists have developed soft robots by taking inspiration from nature. The robot can crawl, swim, grasp delicate objects and even help a pulsating heart,...

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