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Once again, 3D printing will be used to help in wildlife conservation efforts. TRAFFIC, a leading non-government organization (NGO) working to fight against illegal wildlife trade, has announced that they have been using the world’s first-ever 3D printed shark fins…

What may still sound like science fiction to some is actually becoming more and more likely in reality: the colonization of another planet. Various projects are actively working on the implementation of ideas that are supposed to bring about the…

3D printer manufacturer Microlight3D is the winner of the European FET-Open program, Future Emerging Technology with its microstructured concrete that would allow buildings to cool naturally. Thanks to its micro-printing technology, and more specifically its two-photon polymerization technology, the company…

Teams from the Jean Lamour Institute (IJL), the Materials Science research laboratory of the University of Lorraine, have developed a method for producing magnets with a desktop FDM 3D printer. The researchers claim to have succeeded in integrating magnetic properties…

SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, and Local Motors, a next-generation vehicle manufacturer announced that they have completed a study to see whether parts made using large format additive manufacturing (LFAM) could be recycled into new materials before…

MeaTech has filed a provisional patent application in the United States Patent Office for their bioprinting method to make chicken and steak products using cells. The company has dedicated itself to clean farming through the development of an industrial process…

Additive manufacturing with metal is gaining in popularity. This is shown, among other things, by the increasing number of 3D printing companies that specialize in metal manufacturing or offer machines for metal printing. Aluminum, bronze, chrome, stainless steel, iron and…

Over the years, researchers have combined 3D printing and hydrogels for a variety of different innovative projects including a lifelike model of a human heart, cancer treatment, artificial muscle tissue able to adapt its color and shape according to light,…

Sweden-based Celwise intends to change the way paper is made. Using additive manufacturing, specifically custom tooling produced on an ExOne machine, the company has developed a patented technology to make, mold and form paper using almost any form of cellulose.…

Can you imagine an AM platform that could 3D print your electric car battery? This is the dream that the American company Sakuu – formerly KeraCel – hopes to achieve by the end of 2021. In partnership with Musashi Seimitsu…

NASA has announced that its Robotic Deposition Technology (RDT) team is partnering with Aerojet Rocketdyne, an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer headquartered in Sacramento, to advance its 3D printing, and more specifically metal additive manufacturing, technologies. NASA also hopes…

Earlier this month, a team led by staff photolithographer Ed Camacho at Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF), in Duffield Hall created what is thought to be the world’s smallest rendition of Cornell’s iconic McGraw Tower. The tower is…