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FDM on the Nanoscale?
Back in January of this year a research paper entitled, Toward Nanoscale Three-Dimensional Printing: Nanowalls Built of Electrospun Nanofibers was published by Drs. Minhee Lee and Ho-Young Kim of Seou…
Ancient Chinese Woodblock Printing Influences a New & Exciting Bioprinting Technique
Researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute have potentially developed a way to 3D print living cell tissue without using unreliable inkjet style printing techniques. By applying the basic…
UConn’s New Feminist Engineer Wants to 3D Print Electronics
After the University of Connecticut’s Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center put out this hip video featuring dubstep and 3D printing, Leila Ladani left her post at the Universit…
Manufacturing Micro-fluidic Mechanisms by Merging Micro and Macro Machining
Adding bits of things together – such as 3D printing – to make a thing presents a different set of challenges to taking bits off to make a thing – such as sculpting. Making a thing o…
Additive & Subtractive Metal Manufacturing Unified: America Makes Awards Go To Optomec
America Makes has recently announced two new awards to Optomec. The aim is to speed the adoption of one of my own personal favourite additive technologies: the LENS metal additive manufacturing proces…
3D Printed Medical Model May Help Treat Pancreatic Cancer
Since the days of “be seen and not heard” in education, teachers have learned that learning is an interactive, dialectic process. Students all have a variety of methods by which they learn; seeing a l…
Microbots May 3D Print Your New Liver
3D bioprinting has made new headway recently with the publication of a paper titled “Untethered micro-robotic coding of three-dimensional material composition” in Nature Communications in …
NASA Takes 3D Printing to Next Logical Conclusion: 3D Printed Trees
In August of last year, we released a story about how chief scientist of synthetic biology at the NASA Ames Research Center, Lynn Rothschild, and her PhD student, Diana Gentry, were working on a proje…
Need to Detect Mercury in Your Water Supply? There’s an App for That
You’ve got to love Aydogan Ozcan. The UCLA professor is coming out with new laboratory equipment that relies on accessible technology every few months now. He and his team have previously released a …