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3D Printing
Personalize 3D-Printable Models
Novice makers are increasingly fabricating their own 3D printed objects via free, open-source, user-generated 3D…
3D Printing for Human Health
More than 100,000 people are waiting for organ transplants at this moment. While every donation has the possibility…
A Highly Conductive Metallic Gel for 3D Printing
There’s now a metallic gel that is highly conductive and can be used to print three-dimensional (3D) solid objects…
New 3D-Printing Builds with Two Metals
Washington State University researchers created a way to 3D-print two types of steel in the same circular layer…
Need Strong Polymers? Use Weaker Bonds
MIT and Duke University chemists discovered a novel way to strengthen polymers—throw a few weaker bonds into the…
MIT Engineers Create a Soft, Printable, Metal-free Electrode
There are a wide range of electronic implants, from traditional pacemakers and cochlear implants to more futuristic…
Holodeck—Begin Program: Mona Lisa
The holodeck has existed in the Star Trek universe since the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in…
New 3D Printing Drives Manufacturing Renaissance
A research team at the Department of Joining Technology of the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS)…
3D-printed Revolving Devices Sense Their Own Movement
Integrating sensors into rotational mechanisms could enable engineers to build smart hinges that know when a door…
AI Improves Additive Manufacturing
Structural defects that form during an additive manufacturing building process have prevented its wide adoption.…