3-D Printing News
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July 10, 2025 Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven are doing—constructing intricate 3D nanostructures by harnessing the ...
June 2, 2025 Physicists have developed a lens with 'magic' properties. Ultra-thin, it can transform infrared light into visible light by halving the wavelength of incident ...
May 27, 2025 Laser-based metal processing enables the automated and precise production of complex components, whether for the automotive industry or for medicine. However, conventional methods require time- and resource-consuming preparations. Researchers are ...
May 21, 2025 Researchers have developed a 3D micro-printed sensor for highly sensitive on-chip biosensing, opening new opportunities for developing high-performance, cost-effective lab-on-a-chip devices for early disease ...
May 13, 2025 Imagine a T-shirt that could monitor your heart rate or blood pressure. Or a pair of socks that could provide feedback on your running stride. It may be closer than you think, with new research ...
May 8, 2025 New technique for cell or drug delivery, localization of bioelectric materials, and wound healing uses ultrasound to activate printing within the ...
Apr. 25, 2025 Many products in the modern world are in some way fabricated using computer numerical control (CNC) machines, which use computers to automate machine operations in manufacturing. While simple in concept, the ways to instruct these machines is in ...
Apr. 24, 2025 Plant-based seafood alternatives should have similar flavors, textures and nutritional content to the foods they mimic. And recreating the properties of fried calamari rings, which have a neutral flavor and a firm, chewy texture after being cooked, ...
Apr. 24, 2025 An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work at great heights. The flying robots are not ...
Apr. 23, 2025 Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, a lab has built a tissue model entirely out of ...
Apr. 23, 2025 A research team has developed an innovative single-step laser printing technique to accelerate the manufacturing of lithium-sulfur batteries. Integrating the commonly time-consuming active materials ...
Apr. 23, 2025 Engineers have fabricated a metamaterial that is not only strong but also stretchy. Their new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy ...
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Apr. 15, 2025 Growing cells in the laboratory is an art that humans have mastered decades ago. Recreating entire three-dimensional tissues is much more challenging. Researchers are developing a new hydrogel-based ...
Apr. 8, 2025 Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...
Mar. 28, 2025 By using geometric shapes in the shock-absorbing material, researchers have developed a bicycle helmet that provides better protection against head injuries. The material absorbs shock by contracting ...
Mar. 25, 2025 This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one ...
Mar. 22, 2025 Researchers are leveraging machine learning to improve additive manufacturing, also commonly known as 3D printing. The team introduces a new ...
Mar. 19, 2025 A rapid prototyping platform called VIK (Voxel Invention Kit) enables makers without engineering expertise to create large-scale interactive devices ...
Mar. 17, 2025 Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be ...
Mar. 11, 2025 Researchers created 'growth printing,' which mimics tree trunks' outward expansion to print polymer parts quickly and efficiently without the molds and expensive equipment typically associated with ...
Mar. 11, 2025 An international collaboration has shown that additive manufacturing offers a realistic way to build large-scale plastic scintillator detectors for particle physics ...
Mar. 11, 2025 Researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic, yet powerful structures using 3D printing. One ...
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Mar. 28, 2025 Clothes that can mimic the feeling of being touched, touch displays that provide haptic feedback to users, or even ultralight loudspeakers. These are just some of the devices made possible using thin ...
Mar. 7, 2025 Producing high-performance titanium alloy parts -- whether for spacecraft, submarines or medical devices -- has long been a slow, resource-intensive process. Even with advanced metal 3D-printing ...
Feb. 27, 2025 Researchers developed a new optimized printing approach that could enable super-resolution 3D direct laser writing (DLW) of microlenses, photonics crystals, micro-optical devices, metamaterials and ...
Feb. 20, 2025 Safety critical components for aircraft and Formula 1 racing cars could one day be 3D printed via a new technique that substantially reduces imperfections in the manufacturing ...
Feb. 20, 2025 Rapid, localized heat management is essential for electronic devices and could have applications ranging from wearable materials to burn treatment. While so-called thermoelectric materials convert ...
Feb. 19, 2025 Researchers have 3D printed bioelectronic scaffolds that have the properties cells need to form new ...
Feb. 14, 2025 Researchers demonstrated the first fully 3D-printed, droplet-emitting electrospray engine. The low-cost device can be fabricated more quickly than traditional thrusters, potentially from on board a ...
Feb. 13, 2025 The possibilities for material design and production of plastic components are being expanded through 3D printing technology. However, there is a shortage of recyclable polymers that meet the ...
Feb. 13, 2025 Researchers have been trying to find new ways to produce and replicate the various useful features observed in nature. Fine hairs and fibers, which are ubiquitous in nature, are useful for various ...
Feb. 12, 2025 Scientists have used holographic projections to bring unprecedented resolution to a light-based 3D printing technique. The method allows the fabrication of millimeter-scale objects within seconds ...
Feb. 5, 2025 Researchers have revealed novel sequence-structure-property relationships for customizing engineered living materials (ELMs), enabling more precise control over their structure and how they respond ...
Feb. 3, 2025 Researchers have developed a way to print nanoparticles like ink, creating inexpensive sweat sensors that can continuously monitor multiple ...
Jan. 21, 2025 Researchers present paper-based temperature and humidity sensors that are accurate, reliable, and eco-friendly. The team created the sensors by printing silver lines on commercially available paper ...
Jan. 9, 2025 A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery. The living battery could supply power to sensors ...
Jan. 7, 2025 Researchers have developed an innovative method for rapidly creating laser light sources in large quantities using an inkjet printer that ejects laser-emitting droplets. By applying an electric field ...
Jan. 2, 2025 A research team has shown wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) can be both sustainable and ...
Dec. 17, 2024 A future where lightweight car parts can be made with a 3D printer is here, thanks to multi-material additive manufacturing ...
Dec. 16, 2024 Scientists have developed a 3D concrete printing method that captures carbon, demonstrating a new pathway to reduce the environmental impact of the construction ...
Dec. 12, 2024 A research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for ...
Dec. 12, 2024 Researchers have developed a 3D-printed device that generates twisting light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM), a form of rotational energy that can carry more data than regular ...
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- Giant X-Ray Facility Shows That Magnets Can Reduce Flaws in 3D Printed Components
- Cooling Materials -- Out of the 3D Printer
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- Breakthrough Brings Body-Heat Powered Wearable Devices Closer to Reality
- Researchers 3D Print Compact, Low-Cost Vortex Beam Generators
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- Temporary Tattoo Printed Directly on the Scalp Offers Easy, Hair-Friendly Solution for Measuring Brainwaves
- New 3D Printing Approach Means Better Biomedical, Energy, Robotics Devices
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- 3D-Printed Mini-Actuators Can Move Small Soft Robots, Lock Them Into New Shapes
- New Computer Vision Method Helps Speed Up Screening of Electronic Materials
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- New Technique Improves Finishing Time for 3D Printed Machine Parts
- An Easy Pill to Swallow -- New 3D Printing Research Paves Way for Personalized Medication
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- Researchers Harness Blurred Light to 3D Print High Quality Optical Components
- Discover Optimal Conditions for Mass Production of Ultraviolet Holograms
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- Artificial Cartilage With the Help of 3D Printing
- 3D Ice Printing Can Create Artificial Blood Vessels in Engineered Tissue
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- Scientists 3D-Print Hair Follicles in Lab-Grown Skin
- Printed Robots With Bones, Ligaments, and Tendons
- This 3D Printer Can Watch Itself Fabricate Objects
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- To Advance Space Colonization, New Research Explores 3D Printing in Microgravity
- Using Lasers to 'heat and Beat' 3D-Printed Steel Could Help Reduce Costs