The morphing nozzle in action, 3D printing fibre-filled composite materials with on-demand control of fibre alignment...
Materials Articles
3D Printing + Laser Cutting Opens Interesting Possibilities for 3D Printing Wood
If anything, 3D printing has been an inspiration for out-of-the-box thinking. . The plethora of additive technologies...
Wearable Technology: Luxexcel Celebrates 3D Printing +50,000 Lenses for Customers
Luxexcel , Dutch pioneer in 3D printed ophthalmic lenses, has achieved a major milestone in volume manufacturing,...
Benvic develops antibacterial PLA for PPE
The advantages of additive manufacturing have come to the fore over the past months. Additive manufacturing has...
A 3D-Printable Material That Mimics Biological Tissues
Biological tissues have evolved over millennia to be perfectly optimized for their specific functions. Take cartilage...
3D Printing with High-Temperature Filaments
One of the reasons why 3D printing with Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) technology has become so popular so quickly is...
Polypropylene Material to Expand 3D Printing Market
HP is delivering a first of its kind Polypropylene (PP) material for additive manufacturing. The new HP 3D High...
HP “Doubling Down” on Digital Manufacturing With New Announcements
HP entries into the 3D Printing world have been significant. With both the release of their Jet Fusion and Metal Jet...
2020 Update: Carbon Fiber 3D Printing
Heralded as an important catalyst for the changing face of manufacturing and supply chains, additive manufacturing is...
Shrimp shells to serve as the basis for new multi-protective coatings
Chitin derived from shrimps, mushrooms, and other organisms may lead to new 3D-printed, multi-layered polymer coatings...
Objects 3D-Printed out of Clay
3D-printed objects are everywhere and they can be built from all kinds of material from make-belief skin to food. In...
New material could be used to make a liquid metal robot
A liquid metal lattice that can be crushed but returns to its original shape on heating has been developed by Pu Zhang...