Materials Articles

Researchers Develop 3D-Printed Jelly

3D-printable gels with improved and highly controlled properties can be created by merging micro- and nano-sized networks of the same materials harnessed from seaweed, according to new research from North Carolina State University. T . he findings could have...

Additive Manufacturing for Volume Production of Wood Parts

Desktop Metal announced the launch of Forust, a new process to sustainably produce functional end-use wood parts using its patented single pass binder jetting Additive Manufacturing technology. . The Forust process upcycles waste byproducts from wood manufacturing...

A New Printer Uses Sawdust to Print Wooden Objects

A new printer called Forust is using scrap wood to 3D print wooden objects that are as structurally sound as regular carved wood. . Created by Andrew Jeffery and a team of researchers at Desktop Metal, the printer prints using fine sawdust that is formed into solid...

AZO and AddUp Partner to Automate Powder Handling for Metal 3D Printing

Metal powders are some of the most finicky materials in the 3D printing industry in that, not only do the metal particles require a high level of consistency, sphericity, and small size range for powder bed fusion (PBF), but every metal is quite different from one...