Though an effective means of helping to heal broken bones, orthopaedic implants (as foreign matter) always run the risk of creating bacterial infections in the body. Antibiotics are the usual defence …
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Robotic gripper made with 3D printing can hold, twist, and sense objects
3D printing and soft robotics have come together once again. This time it is in the form of a soft robotic gripper that can discern, grip and manipulate objects without being pre-programmed to do so. …
3D printing helps separate CO2 needed for refrigerators and fizzy drinks
Collecting carbon dioxide is important in many commercial applications including the manufacture of fizzy drinks, refrigeration, oil recovery and alkaline water treatment. Membrane gas separation is o…
NIIST 3D prints wearable electronic textiles for remote response
A multidisciplinary research group led by Kuzhichalil Peethambharan Surendran at the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), India, has released findings from a projec…
Colloidal self-assembly has the potential to revolutionize 3D printing
Self-assembly is the ultimate aim of new research, and presents a future vision of 3D printing at a molecular level. The concept describes how particles can be programmed to arrange themselves into vi…
3D printing brings robotics closer to real life with synthetic muscle
Scientists have invented a 3D printed synthetic muscle that can lift up to 1000 times its own weight. In a paper published earlier this week, Aslan Miriyev, Kenneth Stack and Hod Lipson from Columbia …
3D printed suckerfish grip could take explorers into The Great Unknown
Since August 5th 2012 the Mars Curiosity Rover has been live tweeting its movements from the surface of the red planet to almost 4 million followers all around the world. Back on Earth and 10,994 metr…
MIT 3D printed “cups” deliver multiple vaccines in a single shot
A new 3D printing method from the Langer Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a way of making vaccines that releases multiple doses of a drug over a controlled period of ti…
3D printed clay scaffolding shows promise for cell growth and drug delivery
Laponite, a synthetic clay that becomes a clear gel in water, has been used to make a bioink for 3D printing powered medical studies. Commonly used as a thickener in cosmetics, the clay is a novel add…
Oak Ridge partners with Senvol for 3D printing data collection project
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), co-developer of the Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) process and one of America’s leading technological research institutes, has signed a two-year res…