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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
Read more3D 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
Read moreTough biogel structures produced by 3-D printing
Stretchable, biocompatible hydrogels with complex patterning could be used in tissue engineering.
Posted: Jun 1st, 2015
Read moreNASA 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
Read moreNew 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
Read moreSoft-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.
Posted: May 15th, 2015
Read more3D-printed webs
Researchers explore mechanics of silk to design materials with high strength and low density.
Posted: May 15th, 2015
Read more3-D printing is so last year! We're onto 4-D printing now
4-D printing is unfolding as technology that takes 3-D printing to an entirely new level.
Posted: Apr 24th, 2015
Read moreResearchers show soft sides with layered fabric 3-D printer
Device produces soft, squeezable objects; can combine fabrics, wiring.
Posted: Apr 17th, 2015
Read moreIntellectual Property in 3D printing
The implications of intellectual property in 3D printing have been outlined in two documents created for the UK government.
Posted: Apr 16th, 2015
Read moreReport charts a research path for improving printed metal parts
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
Read moreA call to change recycling standards as 3-D printing expands
Researchers have whittled the cost of printing to ten cents per kilogram - down from $30 per kilogram. They made this leap by recycling plastic that had already been printed, using a recyclebot and plastic resin codes developed by the team.
Posted: Mar 18th, 2015
Read moreRevolutionary 3-D printing technology uses continuous liquid interface production (w/video)
3-D printer is the first to use light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool of liquid, reimagining a technology that could bring 3-D printing into mainstream manufacturing.
Posted: Mar 17th, 2015
Read moreFirst-of-its-kind 3-D-printed cement structure (w/viedo)
A UC Berkeley research team unveiled the first and largest powder-based 3-D-printed cement structure built to date. The debut of this groundbreaking project is a demonstration of the architectural potential of 3-D printing.
Posted: Mar 9th, 2015
Read more3-D printed parts provide low-cost, custom alternatives for lab equipment
The 3-D printing scene, a growing favorite of do-it-yourselfers, has spread to the study of plasma physics. With a series of experiments, researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have found that 3-D printers can be an important tool in laboratory environments.
Posted: Mar 3rd, 2015
Read more3-D printing offers innovative method to deliver medication
Interventional radiologists use 3-D printers to develop personalized medical devices that can deliver antibiotics and chemotherapy in targeted manner.
Posted: Mar 2nd, 2015
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