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RMIT studies laser metal 3D printing for defence aircraft parts

Jun.29, 2018 - A team of researchers from Australia's RMIT University is using 'laser metal deposition' technology to build and repair steel and titanium parts for defence force aircraft under a two-year project. More

NOWLab@BigRep creates 'smart concrete wall' through 3D printing

Jun.29, 2018 - NOWlab, the innovation department of large-format 3D printer manufacturer BigRep, has created a 'smart concrete wall' with an adaptive surface enabled by embedded capacitive sensors. More

3D printed composite materials inspired by Mantis Shrimp's powerful club weapon

Jun.28, 2018 - Purdue University studied the mechanism behind just how mantis shrimp wields its powerful club without permanently damaging itself, and the design strategy, aiming to develop a new class of super-tough materials. More

Russian scientists 3D printing biological tissues with magnets in microgravity

Jun.28, 2018 - A Russian research team has developed a new method of bioprinting that allows to create 3D biological objects without the use of layer-by-layer approach and magnetic labels. The new method involves magnetic levitation research in conditions of microgravity. More

BIOLIFE4D successfully 3D bioprints human heart tissue

Jun.27, 2018 - BIOLIFE4D, a Chicago-based medical tech firm specializing in 3D bioprinting and tissue engineering, announced it has successfully demonstrated its ability to 3D bioprint human cardiac tissue ' specifically, a human cardiac patch. More

Titomic signs MST agreement with Fincantieri Australia for Kinetic Fusion 3D printing

Jun.27, 2018 - Fincantieri Australia, the Australian division of Fincantieri S.p.A., one of the world's largest shipbuilding groups, has signed a material science testing (MST) agreement with Melbourne-based metal additive manufacturing company Titomic to support sovereign industrial capability and Australia's continuous naval shipbuilding plans. More

UCSF and INTAMSYS to develop 3D printed PEEK implants for orthopedic surgery

Jun.27, 2018 - Professional 3D printer manufacturer INTAMSYS, headquartered in Shanghai, has announced a joint-research initiative to develop 3D printed PEEK implants for orthopedic surgery with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). More

UA professor to develop 3D printed soil and bacteria binding for construction

Jun.27, 2018 - Michelle Bernhardt-Barry, assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Arkansas, has been studying the structure of soil and how to make it more effective for bearing heavy loads. Through the use of 3D printing, Bernhardt-Barry wants integrate load-bearing mechanisms into the construction of soil layers, and apply calcium carbonate to bind them together. More

General Motors saves $300,000 in tooling costs using 3D printing

Jun.26, 2018 - General Motors sees great value in 3D printing and is taking advantage. The company said most of GM's factories have 3D printers, and 3D printing has the ability to save GM millions of dollars in annual production costs. Dan Grieshaber, GM's director of global manufacturing integration, said use of the 3D printing technology has recently increased, leading GM to expand and better standardize operations. More

US Army invents 3D printable, high strength concrete composition for rapid construction of buildings

Jun.26, 2018 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), a federal agency under the Department of Defense, has developed and patented a 3D printable concrete composition that provides high structural strength for building components. More

Henkel opens new €18M 3D printing technology centre in Tallaght, Ireland

Jun.25, 2018 - Chemical and consumer goods giant Henkel is investing '18 million over the next four years at its Tallaght research and development centre, as it opens a new 3D printing hub there today. The Centre will become Henkel's European regional hub for technology presentations, demonstrations, training, testing as well as customer service for 3D Printing solutions.' More

ETH Zurich students create intricate metal facade in 3D printed moulds

Jun.25, 2018 - Students from ETH Zurich created a beautiful and intricate metal facade using 3D printed molds. Called "Deep Facade", the sculpture-like structure is made of 26 articulated panels, is six metres high and four metres wide. More

Naval Group and Centrale Nantes 3D print first full-scale military propeller blade

Jun.25, 2018 - French naval defense specialist Naval Group and engineering school Centrale Nantes have successfully 3D printed their first full-scale propeller blade demonstrator for military applications using the Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) process. More

'DNA 3D printer,' a new technique could soon let scientists create new DNA 'overnight'

Jun.22, 2018 - Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have invented a new way to create DNA sequences on demand that promises to be faster and cheaper. It does not require the use of toxic chemical and is more accurate than the regular DNA synthesis technique used so far in laboratories around the world. The new method could synthesise genes 'overnight'-it could produce DNA strands ten times longer than those now manufactured artificially. Scientists said it could lead to 'DNA 3D printers' in research labs that work like the 3D printers in many modern workshops. More

Dutch company Vormvrij unveils new LUTUM 4 ceramic 3D printer

Jun.22, 2018 - Ceramic 3D printing specialist Vormvrij has unveiled LUTUM 4, its latest clay-extruding 3D printer. The first Prototype of the LUTUM v4 was showcased at Fabcon+RapidTech fair in Messe Erfurt early June. More

China pioneers ceramic 3D printing in microgravity using DLP technology

Jun.21, 2018 - Scientists at the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has just successfully completed an experiment to 3D print ceramic parts containing lunar dust under microgravity. More

LM Industries opens 3D printing microfactories, 'the first digital OEM'

Jun.21, 2018 - Local Motors, the Arizona-based company known for its 3D printed vehicles, has announced the formation of LM Industries Group, a technology-enabled manufacturer focused on mobility products headquartered in San Francisco. More

eSUN releases eSoluble, next gen of water-soluable PVA support material

Jun.20, 2018 - eSUN's solution to the problem of complex print designs is a water-soluble PVA support material called eSoluble. During 3D printing, a mold from this material will provide solid, reliable support for designs with complex shapes. After printing, when submerged in room-temperature tap water, the mold will dissolve completely within a few hours. More

Prellis Biologics reaches record speed and resolution in 3D printing of human tissue with capillaries

Jun.20, 2018 - Prellis Biologics, a San Francisco-based 3D tissue printing company, announced that it has reached record speed and resolution in the quest to print human tissue with viable capillaries, bringing the goal of printing human replacement organs closer to reality. More

MIT's VoxelMorph machine learning algorithm compares 3D scans up to 1,000 times faster

Jun.19, 2018 - Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge have created a machine-learning algorithm called "VoxelMorph' that they say makes the process of medical image registration more than 1,000 times faster. More

3D printable photochromic molecular materials for reversible information storage

Jun.19, 2018 - New University of Nottingham research proves that advanced materials containing molecules that switch states in response to environmental stimuli such as light can be fabricated using 3D printing. More

HP opens new production-grade Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing center in China

Jun.18, 2018 - HP has partnered with Guangdong (Dali) 3D Printing Collaborative Innovation Platform to open a new production-grade 3D printing center in China, the world's largest manufacturing market. More

Robo expands 3D printing education with MyStemKits acquisition and A$3.5m in new funds raised

Jun.18, 2018 - San Diego, California-based 3D printer manufacturer Robo 3D has announced the acquisition of educational 3D printing platform MyStemKits. Founded in 2013, MyStemKits is currently the owner of the largest online library of STEM curriculums incorporating 3D printable kits for K-12 schools, all developed to meet Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core State Standards (CCSS).' More

Britain is testing robots with 3D printers that can fill in potholes within a minute

Jun.15, 2018 - A fleet of autonomous road vehicles or drones will scan roads looking for cracks and fixing them before potholes develop. Upon spotting a crack in the road, a robot with an attached 3D printer will be able to spray asphalt into a crack in the road to repair it, all within a minute. More

AddUp announces 100% acquisition of DED metal 3D printing company BeAM

Jun.15, 2018 - AddUp, Fives and Michelin's joint-venture 3D printing manufacturing company, has announced the 100% acquisition of Strasbourg based BeAM, a leading European specialist in providing DED (Directed Energy Deposition) 3D printing solutions for aerospace, defense, nuclear, and oil and gas sectors. More

WSU team 3D prints drug-delivering microneedle array for eye disease treatment

Jun.15, 2018 - Kuen-Ren 'Roland' Chen, an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University has received a U.S. Department of Defense grant to develop a more convenient, less expensive and less painful way to treat serious eye diseases. More

MIT's 3D printed shapeshifting robots crawl, jump, roll and play catch through magnets

Jun.14, 2018 - MIT researchers have designed and 3D printed an array of soft, mechanical critters whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet, much like marionettes without the strings. More

SAE International issues four aerospace additive manufacturing technical standards

Jun.14, 2018 - The Aerospace Material Specification committee on Additive Manufacturing (AMS-AM) at SAE International, a global engineering standards association in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, has released its first suite of Aerospace Material Specifications (AMS) additive manufacturing materials and process specifications. The four technical standards is mainly related to laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) powered additive manufacturing. More

Purdue researchers 3D print clay, cookie dough and solid rocket fuel

Jun.13, 2018 - Researchers at Purdue university's Zucrow Labs, the largest academic propulsion lab in the world, have developed a process which enables them to 3D print extremely viscous materials, with the consistency of clay or cookie dough with fine precision. This development may soon allow the creation of customized ceramics, solid rockets, pharmaceuticals, biomedical implants, foodstuffs, and more. More

Brightlands Materials Center project to develop advanced materials for 3D and 4D printing

Jun.13, 2018 - Netherlands-based Brightlands Materials Center is teaming up with partners DSM, Xilloc Medical, Eindhoven University of Technology, Maastricht University and NWO on a four-year project to explore new polymeric materials for additive manufacturing (AM) and 4D printing. These new materials are aimed to bring improved and novel properties based on recently developed concepts of dynamic and reversible chemistry.' More

Sandia's Alinstante modular robot cell conducts 3D printed part testing 'in an instant'

Jun.12, 2018 - Sandia National Laboratories has designed an automated 3D printed part testing robot. Called Alinstante, Spanish for "in an instant," the system is a six-sided work cell, similar to a circular desk, with a commercial robot at its center that conducts high-throughput testing to quickly determine the performance and properties of 3D printed part. More

Virginia Tech's microscale 3D printing creates multimaterial with programmed stiffness

Jun.12, 2018 - Virginia Tech researchers have developed a multimaterial programmable additive manufacturing method of microscale 3D printing that features in-situ resin mixing, delivery and exchange, and a robotic material cleansing system to allow switching between materials of different modulus without cross contamination between properties. More

Cytosurge's FluidFM µ3Dprinter upgrade enables metal 3D printing on existing structures

Jun.11, 2018 - Swiss nanotechnology company Cytosurge has announced a design upgrade to its FluidFM µ3Dprinter, a standalone system for printing pure metal objects at the micrometer scale. The system has received a major design upgrade and has been further improved with a new and unique function: Printing on existing structures with pinpoint (micrometer) accuracy. The extended functionality could revolutionize micromanufacturing by combining additive manufacturing with traditional microfabrication methods. More

Croatia presents Cloud Pergola Pavilion, 'world's largest 3D printed structure' in Venice Biennale

Jun.8, 2018 - The Croatian Pavilion has presented the world's largest and most complex 3D Printed installation at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. Titled 'Cloud Pergola / The Architecture of Hospitality', the Pavilion reflects on spaces of hospitality, the environment, automated design, and architecture's role in the 21st century. More

SUTD researchers sustainably 3D print large-scale objects out of cellulose

Jun.7, 2018 - Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have recently demonstrated the use of cellulose to 3D print large-scale objects. Their approach is inspired by the wall of the fungus-like oomycetes, which is reproduced by introducing small amounts of chitin between cellulose fibers. More

Multimaterial Voxel-3D printing can print data sets as physical objects

Jun.7, 2018 - A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and the MIT Media Lab has come up with a way to get 3D printers to print objects using physical manifestations of data sets rather than geometric representations.' More

Immensa Technology Labs files UAE's first 3D printing patent for construction moulds

Jun.6, 2018 - Immensa Technology Labs, a 3D printing company based in Dubai, said it has filed the UAE's first 3D printing patent for construction moulds. The patent is an Immensa proprietary method for the production of moulds for concrete and other building materials using 3D printing. More

ETH Zurich develops 3D printed paddling submarine that swims without an engine

Jun.6, 2018 - Researchers at ETH Zurich have teamed up with colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop a new propulsion concept for swimming robots. The robot exploits temperature fluctuations in the water for propulsion without the need for an engine, propellant, or power supply. More

Researchers create 3D printed smart hydrogel that walks underwater, moves objects

Jun.4, 2018 - Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs objects and moves them. More

Researchers developed highly stretchable hydrogels for high resolution multimaterial 3D printing

Jun.4, 2018 - Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) Digital Manufacturing and Design (DManD) Centre and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) have developed a family of highly stretchable and UV curable hydrogels that can be stretched by up to 1300%, and are suitable for UV curing based 3D printing techniques. More

CMU researchers design EGO method to optimize soft material 3D printing

Jun.1, 2018 - Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering have developed a novel approach to optimizing soft material 3D printing. The researchers' Expert-Guided Optimization (EGO) method uses an optimization algorithm that efficiently searches combinations of parameters relevant for 3D printing, enabling high-fidelity soft material products to be printed. More

WSU researchers develop one-step process to 3D print multimaterial structures

Jun.1, 2018 - A research team from Washington State University has used 3D printing in a one-step process to print structures made of two different materials. More

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