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A team of engineers has found a way to use 3D printing technology to create artificial tumours to help researchers test new drugs and therapies, which could lead to personalized medicine.
Mar 25th, 2019
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Scientists have developed a novel 3D printer that uses patterns of visible and ultraviolet light to dictate which of two monomers are polymerized to form a solid material. Different patterns of light provide the spatial control necessary to yield multi-material parts.
Mar 12th, 2019
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Researchers have 3D printed live cells that convert glucose to ethanol and carbon dioxide gas, a substance that resembles beer, demonstrating a technology that can lead to high biocatalytic efficiency.
Mar 6th, 2019
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X-ray investigation reveals functioning of highly versatile copper-based compound.
Mar 4th, 2019
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High quality cutting tools can now be 3D printed, with potential for time and cost savings in aerospace and Defence manufacturing.
Feb 27th, 2019
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New research has identified how and when these gas pockets form, as well as a methodology to predict their formation -- a pivotal discovery that could dramatically improve the 3D printing process.
Feb 22nd, 2019
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Engineers are combining mechanical computing with 3D printing as part of an effort to create 'sentient' materials that can respond to changes in their surroundings, even in extreme environments that would destroy electronic components, such as high radiation, heat or pressure.
Feb 20th, 2019
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It looks like something you might find aboard the Starship Enterprise. A projector beams a three-dimensional video into a container of photosensitive resin. The video plays while the container rotates for a few minutes - then the fluid drains, leaving behind a complete, fully formed 3D object.
Feb 13th, 2019
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Instead of throwing away your broken boots or cracked toys, why not let them fix themselves? Researchers have developed 3D-printed rubber materials that can do just that.
Feb 5th, 2019
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Researchers develop a method for dynamic 3D-printing - microstructures can be moved by light and temperature.
Jan 29th, 2019
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Structures can contract, reshape and grab objects while floating on water.
Jan 23rd, 2019
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Using stimuli-responsive materials and geometric principles, engineers have designed structures that have 'embodied logic.' Through their physical and chemical makeup alone, they are able to determine which of multiple possible responses to make in response to their environment.
Jan 15th, 2019
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Researchers have designed and fabricated a fast-response, stiffness tunable soft actuator which is able to complete a softening-stiffening cycle within 32 seconds.
Jan 15th, 2019
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Scientists have created a recipe for a renewable 3D printing feedstock that could spur a profitable new use for an intractable biorefinery byproduct: lignin.
Dec 19th, 2018
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Researchers have 3-D printed a novel microfluidic device that simulates cancer treatments on biopsied tumor tissue - and keeps the tissue alive for days - so clinicians can better examine how individual patients will respond to different therapeutics.
Dec 13th, 2018
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To ensure the digital networking of production systems and the optimization of material-specific requirements, we need to measure, analyze and replicate the changes in material properties in a process in which 'digital twins' of materials are created.
Dec 4th, 2018
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