3D printing technology news

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Via Slashdot:

ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time

Tech demo paves way to producing spare parts and tools during missions

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3D print glass

Engineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures

What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building's lifetime and reassembled into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generations of buildings using the...

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3D Printing On Top Of Laser Cut Acrylic

[Julius Curt] needed to mark acrylic panels with a bit more clarity than the usual way of rastering the surface, so they attempted to 3D print directly to an acrylic sheet, which worked perfectly. …

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I'm still plating!

Simulated construction of plant-based fish meat with composite structure via 3D printing

To date, about 90% of fish resources worldwide have already reached their sustainable fishery limit. Meanwhile, intensive farming and aquaculture contribute to significant environmental pollution and degradation. To address both the challenges of limited production efficiency and environmental...

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Afterburner

F-18 Afterburner Variable Nozzle - 3D model by Shayan CAD on Thangs

Reverse-Engineered afterburner variable nozzle based on F-18 fighter jet. **Model Info:** This model is just an experiment to understand how an afterburner no

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See The Hands-on Details Behind Stunning Helmet Build

[Zibartas] recently created wearable helmets from the game Starfield that look fantastic, and we’re happy to see that he created a video showcasing the whole process of design, manufacture, a…

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Cyberpack Puts All The Radios Right On Your Back

A disclaimer: Not a single cable tie was harmed in the making of this backpack cyberdeck, and considering that we lost count of the number of USB cables [Bag-Builds] used to connect everything in i…

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3D Printed Jellyfish Lights Up

[Ben] may be 15 years old, but he’s got the knack for 3D printing and artistic mechanical design. When you see his 3D-printed mechanical jellyfish lamp, we think you’ll agree. Honestly,…

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3D Printing A Wire-Wrap Tool: Emergency Fix Or Permanent Solution?

Although less popular these days, wire-wrap is still a very relevant, easily reversible solder-free way to assemble (prototype) systems using wire-wrap wire and a wire-wrap tool. This latter tool c…

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Open-Source, 3D Printed Trackpad

Touchpads, or trackpads, have been around since the 1980s. Today, you can often find them in laptops and notebook computers as pointing devices. With no moving parts, a trackpad are easy to integra…

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Air motor

A Wobble Disk Air Motor With One Moving Part

In general, the simpler a thing is, the better. That doesn’t appear to apply to engines, though, at least not how we’ve been building them. Pistons, cranks, valves, and seals, all opera…

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DIY Air Bearings, No Machining Required

Seeing a heavy load slide around on nearly frictionless air bearings is pretty cool; it’s a little like how the puck levitates on an air hockey table. Commercial air bearings are available, o…

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In the news

Putting The New CryoGrip Build Plate To The Test

BIQU has released a new line of low-temperature build plates that look to be the next step in 3D printing’s iteration—or so YouTuber Printing Perspective thinks after reviewing one. The Cryog…

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A 3D Printed, Open Source Lathe?

[Chris Borge] has spent the last few years creating some interesting 3D printed tools and recently has updated their 3D printable lathe design to make a few improvements. The idea was to 3D print t…

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This week

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-digital-approach-common-problems-3d.html

3D printing buildings without cement

Impact Printing uses high speed jets of material found at building sites to form load bearing structures.

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New solvent-free 3D printing material could enable biodegradable implants

Additive manufacturing (AM) has revolutionized many industries and holds the promise to affect many more in the not too distant future. While people are most familiar with the 3D printers that function much like inkjet printers, another type of AM offers advantages using a different approach...

phys.org

Researcher grows biological tissue in the lab using lasers to produce microfilaments

Pioneer Fellow Hao Liu uses lasers to produce microfilament structures to grow biological tissue in the lab for research and medicine—from muscle tissue to cartilage. Now he's working to ready this technology for the market.

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New deep ultraviolet micro-LED array advances maskless photolithography

A team led by Prof. Sun Haiding from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) developed a vertically integrated micro-scale light-emitting diode (micro-LED) array which was then applied in deep ultraviolet (DUV) maskless photolithography system for the first time. Their study was...

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https://phys.org/news/2024-10-3d-nanofabrication-sensitive-cationic-photoresist.html

Machine learning enhances defect detection in metal 3D printing

Researchers from Northwestern University, University of Virginia, Carnegie Mellon University, and Argonne National Laboratory have made a significant advancement in defect detection and process monitoring for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing.

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Bubble printing

Beyond wires: Bubble printing technique powers next-generation electronics

Yokohama National University scientists have developed a promising bubble printing method that enables high-precision patterning of liquid metal wiring for flexible electronics. This technique offers new options for creating bendable, stretchable, and highly conductive circuits, ideal for...

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3D-printed solutions shield electronics from electrostatic discharge

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is a significant concern in the chemical and electronics industries. In electronics, ESD often causes integrated circuit failures due to rapid voltage and current discharges from charged objects, such as human fingers or tools.

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Supersonic microprojectiles reveal new insights into metal bonding

Using a custom-built machine to launch microprojectiles at supersonic speeds, Cornell researchers have uncovered new details about how high-speed metallic collisions can form strong, durable atomic bonds, offering insights that could enhance 3D printing and other manufacturing techniques.

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https://phys.org/news/2024-10-3d-nanofabrication-sensitive-cationic-photoresist.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-digital-approach-common-problems-3d.html

The biggie

Enhanced 3D-printed alloy shows high potential for space applications

A research team has successfully developed a new high-performance metal 3D-printed alloy tailored for space environments. The newly developed alloy demonstrated exceptional mechanical performance at extreme cryogenic temperatures as low as -196°C, proving its high potential for space exploration...

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3D printing method crafts stronger, more ductile alloy for extreme environments

A team of researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tianmushan Laboratory, and the National University of Singapore has pioneered a new method for crafting an ultra-strong, ductile alloy using 3D printing technology.

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A welder speaks

Professor-turned-welder shares her experience in the trade

Although I have a good gig as a full professor at Iowa State University, I've daydreamed about learning a trade—something that required both my mind and my hands.

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On patents

Hackers, Patents, And 3D Printing

Last week, we ran a post about a slightly controversial video that claimed that a particular 3D-printing slicing strategy was tied up by a patent troll. We’re absolutely not lawyers here at Hackada…

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Brick Layers: The Promise Of Stronger 3D Prints And Why We Cannot Have Nice Things

It is a fact of life that 3D printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you c…

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Ice gun

Thermoelectric Blaster Flings Ice Projectiles

Nerf blasters are fun and all, but flinging foam can get old. Picking it up again, even moreso. This blaster from [Concept Crafted Creations] gets around that annoying problem by shooting ice inste…

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Making

A Beautifully Illustrated Guide To Making

If you’ve ever been wondering what you should make next, it can be a daunting task to decide with the firehose of inspiration coming straight from the series of tubes that makeup the World Wi…

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This is rich:

Scientists transform blood into regenerative materials, paving the way for personalized, 3D-printed implants

Scientists have created a new 'biocooperative' material based on blood, which has been shown to successfully repair bones, paving the way for personalized regenerative blood products that could be used as effective therapies to treat injury and disease.

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Biological
Laminating
Assembly
Heuristic
(BLAH!)

 

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Just in

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-key-photoresponsive-visible-3d.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-machine-aids-rapid-advancement-high.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-3d-advance-mitigates-defects-simultaneously.html

 

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A very tough plastic for 3D printing has been developed:

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-team-year-polymers-independent-stiffness.html

More

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-simple-generative-ai-realistic-3d.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-fast-silicone-ink-doors-3d.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-3d-approach-materials-biomedical-energy.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-bendable-electronic-temperature-barrier.html

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-bioprinting-technique-functional-tissue-10x.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-method-molecular-patterns-liquid-droplets.html

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-medical-device-mimics-tapeworm-soft.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-hyper-sampling-imaging-ultra-high.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-filters-manta-rays.html

Plastic and glass

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-catalyst-methane-polymers.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-machine-optimize-polymer-production.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-cooperative-motion-atoms-glass-fracturing.html

 

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Better prints?

New Tullomer Filament Claims To Beat PEEK

Recently a company called Z-Polymers introduced its new Tullomer FDM filament that comes with a lofty bullet list of purported properties that should give materials like steel, aluminium, and vario…

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For displays

Printable laser-emitting droplets offer new display technology

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed an innovative method for rapidly creating laser light sources in large quantities using an inkjet printer that ejects laser-emitting droplets.

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incoming

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-visualizing-advanced-spectrometer-3d.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-stretchable-flexible-recyclable-3d-method.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-3d-biggest-flaw-smartest-feature.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-physicists-approach-patterns-fluid.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-catalyst-life-acrylonitrile-production.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-nature-helical-polymer.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-foam-filter-high-microplastic.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-scrap-strength-solid-phase-aluminum.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-ai-complex-problems-faster-supercomputers.html

ADVANCE

Engineers develop first deep-UV microLED display chips for maskless photolithography

In a breakthrough set to revolutionize the semiconductor industry, the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed the world's first-of-its-kind deep-ultraviolet (UVC) microLED display array for lithography machines. This enhanced efficiency...

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Cooperation between two intruders moving side-by-side in granular media

In bird colonies, schools of fish and cycling pelotons, significant interactions occur between individuals through the surrounding fluid. These interactions are well understood in fluids such as air and water, but what happens when objects move through something like sand? It turns out that...

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More on 3D printing

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-animal-strength-medical-robotics-3d.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-scientists-3d-concrete-method-captures.html

On plastic

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-black-plastic-kitchen-utensils-toxic.html

Blaster

3D Printed Blaster Does It With Compliant Components

The ease of integrating bendy parts into designs is one of 3D printing’s strengths. A great example of this is [uhltimate]’s six-shot blaster which integrates several compliant mechanis…

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Plastic memory?

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-polymer-boosts-high-density-storage.html

 

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Polymer into glass

Ring-shaped polymers solidify into glass, offering sustainable material potential

When a spider is spinning its web, its silk starts out as liquid and quickly turns into a solid that is, pound for pound, sturdier than steel. They manage to create these impressive materials at room temperature with biodegradable and environmentally friendly polymers. Materials scientists at...

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Thermoprints

Thermochromorph: A printmaking technique that transforms images with heat

Researchers in MIT Professor Stefanie Mueller's group have spent much of the last decade developing a variety of computing techniques aimed at reimagining how products and systems are designed. Much in the way that platforms like Instagram allow users to modify 2D photographs with filters...

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Plastics and prints

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-polymer-upcycle-higher-plastics.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-polycatenated-architected-materials-3d.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-3d-tiny-intricate-antennas.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-3d-headlight-lens.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-stronger-greener-superglue-biodegradable-polymer.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-tapered-polymer-fibers-delivery-neuroscience.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-polymers-unprecedented.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-team-3d-microscope-lens.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-electrical-pulse-method-carbon-fiber.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-fully-recyclable-carbon-nanotube-fibers.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-future-bendable-concrete-3d.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-combines-cooling-efficiency-vibrant.html

On design

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-straight-edges-probe-brain-clues.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-wheels-architects-industrial-surveyed-enthusiasm.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-zigzags-greener-concrete-steel.html

 

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Viper

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HaJjKpvvhiU


TOS Enterprise

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LPXphMV1XXY&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trekbbs.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY

Franz Joseph's Star Trek Blueprints - All New CAD design

The gold standard of Star Trek Blueprints remains the original 'General Plans' created by Franz Joseph back in 1973. Today, his plans have been carefully recreated using CAD, presenting the work in incredible detail all fans will love. You can check out those new plans here...

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More:

Post pics of your own 3D creations (not purchased)

Getting back to Gort. I designed a visor that rotates. I'm not sure how to get the visor to open slowly like in the movie. I don't want it to get too complicated with Arduino programming and servos just to get a basic movement. I'm also debating not cutting holes in the bottom of the chin, as...

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Big news this week

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-machine-3d-yield-steel-strong.html

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam.

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202410651

Other advances

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-method-fabricate-soft-electronics-particle.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-protein-denaturation-path-sustainable-3d.html

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-bioprinting-method-heart-tissues-dynamic.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-encoding-properties-material-3d.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-multi-material-possibilities-cellular-fluidics.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-general-law-fracture-energy-networks.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-scientists-world-fully-3d-microscope.html

Small Print Bed? No Problem!

One of the major limitations of 3D printers is the size of the printable area. The robotic arm holding the printer head can only print where it can reach, after all. Some methods of reducing this c…

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Innovative Clock Uses Printed Caustic Lens

Hackers and makers have built just about every kind of clock under the sun. Digital, analog, seven-segment, mechanical seven-segment, binary, ternary, hexadecimal… you name it. It’s bee…

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Internal bracing

Laser-Cut Metal Endoskeleton Beefs Up 3D Prints

There are limits to what you can do with an FDM printer to make your parts stronger. It really comes down to adding more plastic, like increasing wall thickness or boosting up the infill percentage…

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Bone Filament, For Printing Practice Bones

Of course there is bone-simulation filament on the market. What’s fun about this Reddit thread is all of the semi-macabre concerns of surgeons who are worried about its properties matching th…

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Surface patterns

Software Lets You Paint Surface Patterns On 3D Prints

Just when you think you’ve learned all the latest 3D printing tricks, [TenTech] shows up with an update to their Fuzzyficator post-processing script. This time, the GPL v3 licensed program ha…

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The little black exoskeleton

‘Robotic’ Dress Uses Simple Techniques To Combine 3D Printed Parts With Fabric

By and large, our clothes don’t actively move. They’re simple pieces of fabric assembled to sit nicely on our bodies, and little more. [anoukwipprecht] created something a little more t…

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Stronger prints

Brick Layer Post-Processor, Promising Stronger 3D Prints, Now Available

Back in November we first brought you word of a slicing technique by which the final strength of 3D printed parts could be considerably improved by adjusting the first layer height of each wall so …

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https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-bioinspired-3d-architected-efficient.html

Lathe

Modulathe Is CNC Ready And Will Machine What You Want

Once upon a time, lathes were big heavy machines driven by massive AC motors, hewn out of cast iron and sheer will. Today, we have machine tools of all shapes and sizes, many of which are compact a…

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Tough chain-mail

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-imaging-technique-reveals-2d-chainmail.html

"Laser surface texturing can boost lightweight vehicle designs" from Professor Changkyoo Park, Seoul.

On prints and plastic

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-3d-nanopillars-mimic-brain-environment.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-chemists-common-plastic-pigment-depolymerization.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-durable-plastic-sustainability-makeover-polymerization.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-based-substitute-fossil-fuels-plastic.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-biomimetic-polymerization-liquid-crystals-enable.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-recycling-unrecyclable-method-reclaims-materials.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-scientists-highly-2d-polymer.html

Porous plastic sheets can cool buildings by radiating light to space

Traditional cooling systems for buildings use refrigerants and electricity, which contribute to the atmospheric greenhouse effect that exacerbates more extreme weather events. In response, materials scientists have turned to unconventional methods for cooling down buildings. An international...

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https://phys.org/news/2025-02-automated-polymer-tool-machine-molecular.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-highlights-photosynthetic-microorganisms-sustainable-bioplastic.html

Thermal interface material slashes AI data center cooling cost and GPU/CPU power use

The AI revolution has ushered in an era of exponential power and energy consumption. According to the US Department of Energy, energy consumed by AI data centers could triple by 2028. Today, up to 40% of data center power use comes from cooling high-power chips—an astounding amount equivalent to...

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The latest advances

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-holograms-boost-3d-efficiency-resolution.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-3d-alloy-nickel-stainless-steel.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-alloy-adjustment-metal-microstructures-results.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-3d-technique-replicates-nature-delicate.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-eco-friendly-ink-graphene-potential.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-graphics-team-advances-simulating-ink.html

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-3d-bioresorbable-implant-patients-regenerate.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-sofas-4d.html

Micro-gripper

Precision in Miniature: New Microgripper Technology for Electronics and Assembly | Newswise

Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have unveiled an innovative electrothermal microgripper that promises to improve microelectronics, biomedical engineering, and MEMS applications. With its remarkable deformation capabilities, excellent size compatibility and reliable catch...

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A microgripper based on electrothermal Al–SiO2 bimorphs - Microsystems & Nanoengineering

Microgrippers are essential for assembly and manipulation at the micro- and nano-scales, facilitating important applications in microelectronics, MEMS, and biomedical engineering. To guarantee the safe handling of delicate materials and micro-objects, a microgripper needs to be designed to...

www.nature.com

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3D print mini-thruster

Engineers develop a fully 3D-printed electrospray engine that can power tiny satellites

An electrospray engine applies an electric field to a conductive liquid, generating a high-speed jet of tiny droplets that can propel a spacecraft. These miniature engines are ideal for small satellites called CubeSats that are often used in academic research.

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Just today, a few relevant articles dropped..

"3D nano printing technique can transform ceramics for high-performance systems from disease detection to space travel"

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-3d-nanoprinting-technique-ceramics-high.html

"Breaking the pattern--how disorder toughens materials"

Breaking the pattern: How disorder toughens materials

Cut open a bone and you’ll see a subtly disordered structure. Tiny beams, called trabeculae, connect to one another in irregular patterns, distributing stress and lending bones an impressive toughness. What if human-made materials could exhibit similar properties?In a new paper in Proceedings of...

architexturez.net

"Physicists model how amorphous solids lose their stability"

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-physicists-amorphous-solids-stability.html

"Engineers create new glue that mimics mussels'

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-mimics-mussels-mucus-bacterial-buildup.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-based-adhesive-nanocomposite-technology.html

The first article is especially useful in that shrinkage is reduced.

SLS benefits from a vertical weld tool. Might a 3D printer coil around Starship laying down a continuous TPS?

More about 3D prints

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-3d-high-sustainable-thermoelectric-materials.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-giant-ray-facility-magnets-flaws.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-3d-coffee-mushroom-compostable-plastic.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-microfluidic-component-library-enables-rapid.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-optimizes-electrical-thermal-mechanical-behavior.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-optimized-approach-enables-super-resolution.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-xolography-based-method-enables-3d.html

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-metal-space-earth.html

Novel photochromic glass can store rewritable 3D patterns

For decades, researchers have been exploring how to store data in glass because of its potential to hold information for a long time—eons—without applying power. A special type of glass that changes color in different wavelengths of light, called photochromic glass, holds promise for stable...

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Tin foam powers new battery electrode innovation

Metal-based electrodes in lithium-ion batteries promise significantly higher capacities than conventional graphite electrodes. Unfortunately, they degrade due to mechanical stress during charging and discharging cycles. A team at HZB has now shown that a highly porous tin foam is much better at...

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https://phys.org/news/2025-02-opportunities-2d-materials.html

Structural color

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-polymer-microdomes-reveal-tunable-chiral.html

Infill Injection Experiment Makes Stronger Parts

[JanTec Engineering] was fascinated by the idea of using a 3D printer’s hot end to inject voids and channels in the infill with molten plastic, leading to stronger prints without the need to …

hackaday.com

New Camera Does Realtime Holographic Capture, No Coherent Light Required

Holography is about capturing 3D data from a scene, and being able to reconstruct that scene — preferably in high fidelity. Holography is not a new idea, but engaging in it is not exactly a p…

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Tough materials

AI Helps Researchers Discover New Structural Materials

Nanostructured metamaterials have shown a lot of promise in what they can do in the lab, but often have fatal stress concentration factors that limit their applications. Researchers have now found …

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