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3D Printing Industry research CrAMmed: MIT, National Academy of Engineering, Aalto University, Optomec
As additive manufacturing continues to enable researchers worldwide, CrAMmed, 3D Printing Industry’s academic and AM research digest, shares the latest innovations and literature demonstrating its cap…
Fraunhofer IST researchers develop 3D printing plasma jetting method for bone implants
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST have developed a method using cold plasma to 3D print patient-specific plastic bone implants. As part of the EU-funde…
Researchers develop novel 3D bioprinting method to noninvasively monitor cell activity
Professor Michael Kühl at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), and an international team of researchers from the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden), located in Germany…
MIT, Yale and University of Nottingham examine environment impact of 3D printing
In a special issue of Yale University’s Journal of Industrial Ecology, researchers present further analysis on the environmental performance of 3D printing. According to Tim Gutowski, Professor of Mec…
Is 3D printing really as ecofriendly as we think it is?
A recent study by German environmental association, Umweltbundesamt (UBA), gives information on 3D printing and the environment. Titled 3D Printing Trend report for assessing the environmental impacts…
Interview: Chris Palmer aka Nop Head on the RepRap 10th Anniversary
To mark the 10th Anniversary of RepRap, 3D Printing Industry is interviewing early pioneers from the RepRap project and others who continue to share their work through Open Source licenses. Chris Palm…
3D printing to study sexual behaviour of yellow toads in Costa Rica
While 3D printing has previously been used to study extinct animals, research is now turning to live fauna. Academics at the University of Windsor in Canada are using 3D printed toads to study the sea…
Yale journal looks at impact of 3D printing on health and environment
A special edition of the “Journal of Industrial Ecology,” a peer-reviewed scientific journal produced by the Center for Industrial Ecology (CIE) at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Stud…
Royal Caribbean and Snapchat take 3D printing to new depths
The use of 3D printing for tooling and fixtures in the industrial world is well documented. Recently we reported on how by using desktop 3D printers Volkswagen were able to save $160k. For those trave…