Research

A research team at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) has designed a 3D printed diaphragm pump that is operated magnetically. Portable and effective, the new pump demonstrates the potential of additively manufactured devices. The scientists behind the project hope that this proof-of-principle pump will inspire…

The automation of various stages of the 3D printing workflow will accelerate industrial 3D printing. When parts are made at scale, repeatability becomes essential, however 3D printing systems cannot always provide this. Therefore, part of this automation concerns assessing the…

Over recent years, metal additive manufacturing experienced greater growth than other plastic 3D printing processes such as FDM or SLS. Mainly used for prototypes, tooling, and replacement parts, the industry also witnessed this technology being used for production runs of…

Selective laser sintering technology is one of the most widely used processes in additive manufacturing, where plastic particles heated by a heat source, usually a laser, are bonded together. One of the limitations of this technology today is the impossibility…

New advances in 3D bioprinting for medical purposes appear as a group of researchers from Nagoya University, Japan has developed 3D printed parts from fish gelatin. More precisely, these parts are actually hydrogel patches implantable in cancer patients. The 3D…

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…