Education and Research Articles

All the new stuff that’s fit to print (in 3D)

From glass to bacteria, you can print almost anything these days, as researchers backed by the EU-funded ATTRACT project are demonstrating. . Humans have been making glass for well over 5,000 years, but not like this. Recent advances in photonics are driving...

Harvard develops keratin-based 3D printed textile that changes form

A research team from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has drawn inspiration from hair to develop a 3D printable textile that changes its form based on moisture exposure using a shape memory concept. . As even the most...

Israeli 3D print whizz and visionary of ‘self-healing’ cars gets big US accolade

An Israeli 3D printing pioneer has become a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, making him the first scientist based outside the US to attain the status. . “It’s acknowledgment for my research, but also, in a sense, a mark of respect for Israeli...

Versatile New Material Family Could Build Realistic Prosthetics

Nature's blueprint for the human limb is a carefully layered structure with stiff bone wrapped in layers of different soft tissue, like muscle and skin, all perfectly bound together. Achieving this kind of sophistication using synthetic materials to build biologically...