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3D printing Proto-pasta to create magnetic donut transformers
What happens when you combine 3D printing, donuts and iron? Researchers from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota have used an FDM 3D printer to create a more efficient transformer core. Transforme…
Rice University initiates capillary growth with 3D printable gelatin hydrogel
Existing in their billions and responsible for exchanging water, oxygen and carbon dioxide between blood and tissue, capillaries are at the core of the human body. As such, recreation of these vessels…
New research advances liquid metal 3D printing, “10x faster at 1/10th cost”
Aluminum has a fascinating history, yet 3D printing with the material has proved problematic. Guests of Napoleon III could expect to eat from gold or silver plates, while aluminum was reserved for Emp…
NIST researchers hope to remove barriers to 3D printing metal with new machine
A custom built 3D printer may enable wider use of metal additive manufacturing according to researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Additive Manufacturing Metrolo…
Using 3D printing to upcycle in the circular economy at the University of Luxembourg
In the linear economy raw materials are extracted, goods produced and consumed and then the waste discarded. However an alternative, using 3D printing, is possible according Claude Wolf and Slawomir K…
Light-directed assembly using gold nano-rods opens up 3D bioprinting applications
The 3D bio-printing market has seen significant activity in 2017. Several companies are preparing 3D printers for launch and we have frequently reported on academic studies in this area. A number of 3…
3D printed flying fish holds the secret for tandem airplane design
Japanese researchers have 3D printed a flying fish model to improve the design of tandem airplanes. The ribbon halfbeak flying fish has been analyzed by Dr Yoshinobu Inada’s team at Tokai Univer…
Seems fishy? 3D printing with shrimp holds key to self-healing wearables
Researchers have 3D printed a new biopolymer made from shrimp – the results may change the the way things are made. Applications of the conductive self-healing (CSH) hydrogel include soft robots…
Scientists 3D print Parkinson’s medicine for first time with UV inkjet 3D printing
New research into 3D printed medicine has shown – for the first time – that a combination of inkjet printing and UV curing can produce, “solid oral dosage forms” of drugs. The research ope…