3D-Printing News – Latest Headlines

Subscribe to our 3D Printing News feed

Brain teaser: 3-D printed 'tissue' to help combat disease

A bench-top brain that accurately reflects actual brain tissue would be significant for researching not only the effect of drugs, but brain disorders like schizophrenia, and degenerative brain disease. Researchers have made progress in this area, 3-D printing a six-layered structure like brain tissue, in which cells are accurately placed and remain in their designated layer.

Posted: Aug 3rd, 2015

3D-printed 'smart cap' uses electronics to sense spoiled food

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

3-D printers poised to have major implications for food manufacturing

The 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

Sweden starts a project of 3D printing houses

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

First 3D-printed supercar goes from 0-60 mph in 2 seconds

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

3D-printing of metal with microscale droplets

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

3D-printing ould reduce an airplane's weight by 4 to 7 percent

Researchers 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

3D printing: a technology that could revolutionise our lives

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

Tough biogel structures produced by 3-D printing

Stretchable, biocompatible hydrogels with complex patterning could be used in tissue engineering.

Posted: Jun 1st, 2015

NASA challenges designers to construct 3D-printed habitat for deep space exploration

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

New computational technique advances color 3D printing process

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

Soft-tissue engineering for hard-working cartilage

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.