Building lighter with concrete: How concrete 3D printing saves material and CO2
Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world. It can be used in many ways, can be ...
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Easy as an inkjet, a new soft printing technique has opened the way for pixelated elastics
Borrowing a technique from inkjet printers, researchers at Princeton Engineering have rolled out a pixel-by-pixel method to program and manufacture ...
4D composite printing can improve the wings of drones, according to new Concordia research
The aviation industry faces multiple pressures from higher fuel costs and increased scrutiny over the environmental and quality-of-life impacts from ...
Reforming coral reefs using 3D printing
The world's coral reefs are becoming extinct due to many factors such as global warming and accelerated urbanization in coastal ...
NTU Singapore scientists use recycled glass waste as sand replacement in 3D printing
Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed the capability to use recycled glass in 3D printing, opening ...
Making 3D printing truly 3D
Don’t be fooled by the name. While 3D printers do print tangible objects (and quite well), how they do the ...
An alternative low-cost technique to produce metal powders for 3D printing
Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as metal 3D printing, creates objects by addition of material, layer by layer. A major ...
Simply printing high-performance perovskite-based transistors
The printing press has contributed immensely to the advancement of mankind by elevating politics, economy, and culture to higher grounds. ...
Low viscosity, high-performance urethane formulations designed for 3D inkjet printing
Alexandria, VA, USA – Kyle Sorensen, University of Colorado, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aroura, presented the “Low Viscosity, ...
3D printing technology could change the optical fiber industry
3D printing of silica glasses and silica optical fiber preforms has recently been proved experimentally. One challenge of 3D printing ...
Story tips: DNA in a drop, printing in the wind, drier air, revealing hidden biology and calculating better batteries
Hydropower — DNA in a drop Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S Dept. of Energy Hydropower — DNA in a drop Researchers ...
3D printing and virtual reality are helping anaesthesiologists prepare for surgery
New research being presented at Euroanaesthesia, the annual meeting of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC), held ...
Devising new meat alternatives with 3D printing — and cocoa butter
No longer just a dream of vegetarians and vegans, fake meat is becoming more widely available in grocery stores and ...
Printing technique creates effective skin equivalent, heals wounds
WASHINGTON, December 3, 2021 -- Chronic wounds are deep and difficult to repair. Often, the top of the injury heals ...
Researchers develop novel 3D printing technique to engineer biofilms
Anne S. Meyer, an associate professor of biology at the University of Rochester, and her collaborators at Delft University of Technology in the ...
3D printing frames a restoration for coral
Coral restoration could become easier and quicker with the use of 3D printing. As the technology matures, it could be ...
A new 3D printing frontier: Self-powered wearable devices
When most people think of wearable devices, they think of smart watches, smart glasses, fitness trackers, even smart clothing. These ...
Innovative design of titanium alloy with supreme properties by 3D printing
A research led by scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has successfully developed a super-strong, highly ductile and ...
Tweaking Alloy Microchemistry For Flawless Metal 3D Printing
In the last few decades, metal 3D printing has spearheaded the efforts in creating custom parts of intricate shapes and ...
University of Illinois researchers design extreme heat exchanger using metal 3D printing
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Demonstrating next-generation energy technology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are using topology optimization and metal 3D ...