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Ultralow-Temperature Supercapacitors Using Porous Carbon Aerogel – Could Power Mars & Polar Missions
A porous carbon aerogel improves the low-temperature performance of supercapacitors, which could help supply energy for space missions and polar activities. . Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04780 NASA’s Perseverance Rover recently made a...
MIT CSAIL develops the LaserFactory capable of printing robots
A group from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) developed an autonomous system that prints functional, custom-made devices and robots. . This single system, known as the LaserFactory uses a three-ingredient recipe that lets users...
3D Printing Polymers
Researchers in the labs of Christopher Bates, an assistant professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara , and Michael Chabinyc, a professor of materials and chair of the department, have teamed to develop the first 3D-printable "bottlebrush" elastomer. The new material...
Researchers Develop an Elastic Material for Stretchy, Soft 3D-Printed Parts — Without Solvents
Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara have detailed a method of 3D printing soft, elastic materials — resembling human skin in their mechanical properties — at room temperatures and without solvents. . "We start with long polymers that are not...
How 3D printing is helping GE Research turn air into water
Water scarcity is a major global problem. More than 1.1 billion people do not have access to the liquid that sustains life, while nearly 3 billion experience water scarcity at some point ( WWF ). In an effort to combat this reality—which has the potential to worsen...
Fabricating fully functional drones
From Star Trek’s replicators to Richie Rich’s wishing machine, popular culture has a long history of parading flashy machines that can instantly output any item to a user’s delight. While 3D printers have now made it possible to produce a range of objects that include...
Cretaceous Bird Fossil: Researchers Use 3D Technologies to Reveal Beak Developments
An international team of researchers led by Ohio University (OU) Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Professor Patrick O’Connor announced the discovery of a Late Cretaceous crow-sized stem bird from Madagascar with a long and deep beak morphology that was...
Researchers Find a Faster, More Efficient Way to 3D Print
Use 5-axis, they did not. Two researchers at Penn State have created a new system for five-axis additive 3D-printing that reduces the amount and density of support materials needed for making printed objects. . In a paper entitled “ Process planning for five-axis...
Circular Economy Under-explored in 3D Printing, Say Researchers
Researchers from UNIDEMI at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa in Portugal took note of the fact that, while 3D printing could serve as a key technology in a circular economy, there is not yet significant discussion of this possibility in the additive manufacturing (AM)...