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The US Air Force has been incorporating additive manufacturing technologies in its operations for quite a while now. For instance, it has already collaborated with GE Additive to facilitate the adoption of metal 3D printing. This time US Air Force…

A new 3D printing technique has been developed by the researchers from the University of California, Davis. The paper detailing the approach was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, one of the…

Researchers from the University of Illinois are demonstrating how additive manufacturing technologies can be used to produce multiple colors from a single ink. More specifically, the research paper entitled “Tunable structural color of bottlebrush block copolymers through direct-write 3D printing…

As metal additive manufacturing grows, it is not always easy to obtain high quality, high precision parts for specialized and demanding applications. That’s why a team of researchers at Saarland University in Germany has developed a non-contact process based on…

Even though additive manufacturing is moving beyond being a rapid prototyping technology, injection molding is still the most efficient way to mass produce plastics parts. Injection molding is therefore essential for mass-production of plastic parts with complex shapes. In order…

Researchers from the Institute for High Performance Materials at Florida State University and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering recently conducted a study that shows that using magnetic fields in the vicinity of a 3D printer can change the alignment of…

Researchers at Texas A&M University and Essentium scientists have developed a method to enhance the interlayer adhesion of a 3D printed plastic part. By integrating carbon nanotubes and plasma science directly into the manufacturing process, they would be able to…

It’s an accepted limitation that parts produced with additive manufacturing must be smaller than the machine that produced them. Once these parts have been manufactured, they can be post-processed and bonded together to form larger structures. Large scale 3D printing…

Several engineers at Rutgers University have used additive manufacturing to create tiny needles that could replace conventional hypodermic needles.  4D printing is a technological revolution, incorporating intelligent materials that can be programmed to change shape once printed. Taking advantage of…

3D printing technologies can be used to create complex and intricate structures by enabling a new level of design freedom. This is one of the main benefits of additive manufacturing, and one of the aspects many scientists around the world…

At Cornell University, a group of researchers have created a 3D printed sweating robot muscle. By enabling the robot hand to sweat, the muscle can regulate its temperature in the same way that mammals do. The researchers explained that thermal…

Hybrid Living Materials (HLMs) are formed by combining living and non-living components such that the resulting composite takes on the properties of both. At MIT’s Media Lab Mediated Matter group, researchers have been studying how 3D printing technologies can control…