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Chorogenesis To Disrupt The Construction Industry With Its ”6D” 3D Printers
A new mysterious construction grade digital fabrication start-up company has openly declared its intention to “disrupt” the construction industry and claims to have developed a new approach to 3D prin…
3D Printing LEDs Onto Contact Lenses at Princeton: An In-Depth Look
As we reported, Princeton researchers have “embedded tiny light-emitting diodes into a standard contact lens, allowing the device to project beams of colored light.” A few more details have come to l…
Research Shows Sustainable PLA Filament Production with 17x Greater Profit
What if it were possible to produce filament for 3D printing – at personal / prosumer desktop production andprofessional prototyping levels – that was recyclable, biodegradable, and source…
PhD Studentship Announced In The UK To Create New 3D Printed Design Solutions With Liquid Metal Materials
Eligible students can now apply for a fully funded PhD studentship (3 years) to work as part of the Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Research Group (3DPRG). Located within the Faculty of Enginee…
Objet 3D Printed “Microswimmer” Opens Door to Self-Propelled Biomedical Devices
Chances are that the last time you thought about all of the possible applications of 3D printing, you did not include a “microswimmer that moves with reciprocal periodic body-shape changes in non-Newt…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Test Fires CubeSat Rocket with 3D Printed Piston
Defense manufacturer Aerojet Rocketdyne is continually proving its ability to 3D print rocket systems capable of meeting the high-standards of aerospace. After successfully test firing a small, 3D pr…
Columbia Researchers Successfully Grow Knee Tissue with 3D Printing
There are a few different ways to go about 3D printing organs. One, possibly the simplest, is to 3D print a scaffold using a biocompatible material and then grow the tissue cells on it. This approach …
Vrije Universiteit Brussel Published Customer and Business 3D Printing Surveys
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel, a Dutch speaking university located in Brussels, Belgium, has released a series of 3D printing surveys. The surveys were composed by Wesly Jacobs. Jacobs has featured p…
Researchers at NC State Set Out to Reduce Cost of Nanolithography 3D Printing
I imagine developing a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres to create three-dimensional (3D) structures with biomedical, electronic and photonic applications while lowering the cost i…