3D printer manufacturer Electronic Alchemy has developed a system capable of additive manufacturing fully functional electronics. Named eForge, NASA intends to use the system during planetary space mi…
Farsoon successfully adapts H13 tool steel for DMLS additive manufacturing
Farsoon Technologies, a Chinese metal and polymer 3D printer manufacturer, has devised a method to produce H13 tool steel parts by laser sintering. After parameter optimization tests, the company has …
Tru-Design announces partnership with Composites One to expand market for 3D printing finishing
Tru-Design, a Tennessee-based 3D printing coatings specialist has signed a distribution agreement with composites materials company Composites One. Leveraging Composites One’s North American distribut…
Shandong University develops new WAAM technique
Researchers at Shandong University, China, have developed a novel metal 3D printing method called compulsively constricted wire arc additive manufacturing (CC-WAAM). Improving on WAAM, this process ha…
Added Scientific creates the first 3D printed magnetic-optical trap chamber
Additive manufacturing R&D company Added Scientific has 3D printed the first vacuum chamber that can trap clouds of cold atoms. Introducing geometries only available to 3D printing, the vacuum sys…
3D Printing News Sliced: CELLINK, Zortrax, Xometry, Nanoscribe
This week’s edition of Sliced, the 3D Printing Industry news digest features 3D printed toys to scramjet engines, and the latest preview of TCT 2019. We also cover Xometry, Zortrax, UPM, CELLINK, GE …
Sandia develops 3D printable enclosure material that “bleeds” to indicate tampering
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), has developed a 3D printable material for indicates penetration of…
3D printed holographic lenses focus ultrasound for low-cost brain imaging
Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain 3D printed acoustic holographic lenses for focusing ultrasonic sound waves in the brain. Running computer simulations, the team found aco…
SUTD researchers integrate functional components to 3D printed microfluidic devices
Singapore University of Technology and Design‘s (SUTD) Soft Fluidics Lab has developed a simple method to 3D print microfluidic devices integrated with fluid handling and functional components. …
University of Manchester develops 2D material MXene ink to 3D print supercapacitors
Researchers at the University of Manchester in the UK have for the first time demonstrated the possibility of 3D printing freestanding objects with 2D material MXene. As the first study on the 3D prin…