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Engineers are expanding the already impressive portfolio of 3D printing technology to include electrical components, such as resistors, inductors, capacitors and integrated wireless electrical sensing systems. They have put the new technology to the test by printing a wireless 'smart cap' for a milk carton that detected signs of spoilage using embedded sensors.
Posted: Jul 20th, 2015
Read moreThe use of 3D printers has the potential to revolutionize the way food is manufactured within the next 10 to 20 years, impacting everything from how military personnel get food on the battlefield to how long it takes to get a meal from the computer to your table.
Posted: Jul 13th, 2015
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In a collaborative project, researchers and external partners are together developing a technology to make full-scale 3D prints of cellulose based material. It is not a matter of small prints - the objective is to make houses.
Posted: Jun 26th, 2015
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Divergent Microfactories unveiled a disruptive new approach to auto manufacturing that incorporates 3D printing to dramatically reduce the pollution, materials and capital costs associated with building automobiles and other large complex structures.
Posted: Jun 25th, 2015
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Researchers have found a way to 3D print structures of copper and gold, by stacking microscopically small metal droplets. These droplets are made by melting a thin metal film using a pulsed laser.
Posted: Jun 10th, 2015
Read moreResearchers have confirmed a new way to help the airline industry save dollars while also saving the environment. And the solution comes in three dimensions. By manufacturing aircrafts' metal parts with 3-D printing, airlines could save a significant amount of fuel, materials, and other resources.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2015
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3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is the process of turning a 2D digital image into a 3D object through printing successive layers of materials until an entire item is created. Initial images are created in design software programmes before being realised through 3D printing. The advent of consumer 3D printing has the potential to revolutionise its use as a technology, but also opens up a whole host of intellectual property debates.
Posted: Jun 2nd, 2015
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Stretchable, biocompatible hydrogels with complex patterning could be used in tissue engineering.
Posted: Jun 1st, 2015
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NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, are holding a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration, including the agency's journey to Mars.
Posted: May 26th, 2015
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Researchers develop new method - computational hydrographic printing - that physically aligns a surface color texture onto a 3D surface with a precision never before attained.
Posted: May 22nd, 2015
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Researchers investigated a new combination of 3-D printed microfiber scaffolding and hydrogels. The composites they tested showed elasticity and stiffness comparable to knee-joint tissue, as well as the ability to support the growth and cross-linking of human cartilage cells.
Posted: May 15th, 2015
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Researchers explore mechanics of silk to design materials with high strength and low density.
Posted: May 15th, 2015
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4-D printing is unfolding as technology that takes 3-D printing to an entirely new level.
Posted: Apr 24th, 2015
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Device produces soft, squeezable objects; can combine fabrics, wiring.
Posted: Apr 17th, 2015
Read moreThe implications of intellectual property in 3D printing have been outlined in two documents created for the UK government.
Posted: Apr 16th, 2015
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Manufacturing researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have scoped out the missing sections in current guidelines for powder bed fusion, the chief method for printing metal parts.
Posted: Apr 15th, 2015
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