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Magnetic materials play important roles in electrical products. These materials are usually manufactured by means of established production techniques and use of rare earth metals. Several research teams are working on alternative, more environmentally friendly production methods.
Jan 30th, 2020
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Researchers revolutionise 4D printing by making a 3D fabricated material change its shape and back again repeatedly without electrical components.
Jan 29th, 2020
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A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.
Jan 23rd, 2020
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Researchers have developed a new method to embed information in a 3D printed object and retrieve it using a consumer document scanner.
Jan 20th, 2020
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An in-depth review on the impending reality of 3D printed organs and analyses recent accomplishments, limitations and opportunities for future research.
Dec 11th, 2019
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The discovery of how a 'beam' in human bone material handles a lifetime's worth of wear and tear could translate to the development of 3D-printed lightweight materials that last long enough for more practical use in buildings, aircraft and other structures.
Dec 6th, 2019
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Researchers created a functioning 3D-printed ukulele and used acoustics to compare its sound quality to a standard wooden instrument.
Dec 6th, 2019
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Engineered tissue from a bioprinter has promise for organ regeneration or replacement.
Dec 6th, 2019
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Researchers have demonstrated a novel and groundbreaking way to additively print gallium nitride (GaN) - a material that can be used to produce semiconductor power devices as well as radio-frequency components and light-emitting diodes - using a combination of liquid and gas.
Dec 2nd, 2019
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Researchers used a 3D printing process to produce complex and highly porous glass objects. The basis for this is a special resin that can be cured with UV light.
Nov 27th, 2019
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A new 3D-printing method allows manufacturers to better customize carbon microelectrodes used as biomedical implants. These implants are used to record signals from the brain or nervous system.
Nov 26th, 2019
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Researchers have produced so-called diffraction gratings using 3D printing. Their measurements have shown that the gratings enable systematic manipulation of high-frequency radiation.
Nov 20th, 2019
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Mechanical engineering professors awarded funds from the National Science Foundation to contribute new knowledge to the processing of polymer matrix composites.
Nov 12th, 2019
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Engineers have embedded high performance electrical circuits inside 3D-printed plastics, which could lead to smaller and versatile drones and better-performing small satellites, biomedical implants and smart structures.
Nov 5th, 2019
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Researchers have developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. The advancement is a significant step toward creating grafts that are more like the skin our bodies produce naturally.
Nov 1st, 2019
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A new approach to the 3D printing of chocolate using cold extrusion instead of the conventional hot-melt extrusion method, eliminates the need for stringent temperature controls, offering wider potential for the 3D printing of temperature-sensitive food.
Oct 31st, 2019
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A modified triple-coaxial 3D cell printing technique allows fabrication of multilayer blood vessels that have the unique biomolecules needed to transform into functional blood vessels when they are implanted.
Oct 22nd, 2019
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With a new process, living cells can be integrated into fine structures created in a 3D printer - extremely fast and with very high resolution.
Oct 21st, 2019
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