3D Materials

3D printing innovations seem to be occurring at a faster and faster rate. One of the most exciting innovations are the amount of new materials being developed for 3D printing. Recently however, we’ve seen chocolate, metal, wood, and more able…

HRL Laboratories have made a breakthrough; a way to reliably 3D print high-strength aluminum alloys. You’re hungry. The baby’s crying. The picturesque sites of Australia that the travel company promised you has been exchanged for some corrugated steel and a…

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have successfully 3D-printed transparent glass. What’s more, this test was successfully conducted at room temperature. Reports from the test claim glass structures with composition gradients can also be produced with this method. This…

Start-up Freshmade 3D from Ohio have recently announced that they have created a material strong enough to create 3D-printed bowling balls from. The material, called AMClad, is an “isotropic Engineered Sand Composite (ESC)”, that they say is “ideal for 3D…

In another huge step towards fully 3D-printed rocket engines, NASA has successfully tested an igniter prototype made from two metal alloys. Engineers at NASA have been hard at work to produce this component using a new method of laser printing. As…

Mars is a long way away. At its closest, it’s 54.6 million kilometres away (9 months travel). At it’s furthest? 401 million km. This creates some problems for a manned landing, problems we are currently trying to solve. One of…

Graphene, which is a form of carbon, is known for its properties of strength and lightness, especially when used as a 3D printing material. Taking this lightness and strength further, three engineers decided to print the graphene with aerogel, creating…

Today we are going to be talking about the different types of nylons used in 3D printing. Reading our previous posts, you will have seen that nylon is a filament that we particularly appreciate here at 3Dnatives. The ability to dye…