3D (three-dimensional) printing techniques have been in development since 1974, when pioneering British chemist and author David E. H. Jones proposed a concept for 3D printing in his regular New Scientist column, “Ariadne”.

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There, Jones fantasized about laser-based polymerization techniques with which “any type of solid object at all could be made up: even complex interlocking and re-entrant shapes quite impossible to mold”. Perhaps inspired by the potential applications in research and development, engineering, manufacturing, and a plethora of other fields more so than by Jones’s lighthearted article, researchers in academia and industry have spent recent decades realizing what was mere fantasy 40 years ago.

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Additive Manufacturing Modern 3D printing is also known as additive manufacturing and includes a wide variety of techniques. In all of them, components, devices, and so on are “printed” layer by layer from the desired material or materials. These layers are […]

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