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April 30, 2025

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Flying Robots Unlock New Horizons in Construction

Apr. 24, 2025 — An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work at great heights. The flying robots are not ...

FRESH Bioprinting Brings Vascularized Tissue One Step Closer

Apr. 23, 2025 — Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, a lab has built a tissue model entirely out of ...

Engineers Print Synthetic 'Metamaterials' That Are Both Strong and Stretchy

Apr. 23, 2025 — Engineers have fabricated a metamaterial that is not only strong but also stretchy. Their new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy ...

Artificial Skin from Hydrogels

Apr. 15, 2025 — Growing cells in the laboratory is an art that humans have mastered decades ago. Recreating entire three-dimensional tissues is much more challenging. Researchers are developing a new hydrogel-based material that makes it possible to engineer ...

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Rare Crystal Shape Found to Increase the Strength of 3D-Printed Metal

Apr. 7, 2025 — Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...

Geometric Design of Material Provides Safer Bicycle Helmet

Mar. 25, 2025 — By using geometric shapes in the shock-absorbing material, researchers have developed a bicycle helmet that provides better protection against head injuries. The material absorbs shock by contracting ...

These Electronics-Free Robots Can Walk Right Off the 3D-Printer

Mar. 25, 2025 — This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the 3D-printer. It can also be printed in one go, from one ...

New Machine Learning Framework Enhances Precision and Efficiency in Metal 3D Printing, Advancing Sustainable Manufacturing

Mar. 21, 2025 — Researchers are leveraging machine learning to improve additive manufacturing, also commonly known as 3D printing. The team introduces a new ...

Nature-Inspired 3D-Printing Method Shoots Up Faster Than Bamboo

Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers created 'growth printing,' which mimics tree trunks' outward expansion to print polymer parts quickly and efficiently without the molds and expensive equipment typically associated with ...

Muscles from the Printer: Silicone That Moves

Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic, yet powerful structures using 3D printing. One ...

Researchers Demonstrate Laser Writing With Unprecedented Speed and Resolution

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers developed a new optimized printing approach that could enable super-resolution 3D direct laser writing (DLW) of microlenses, photonics ...

Researchers Create the World's Smallest Shooting Video Game Using Nanoscale Technology

Feb. 26, 2025 — A research team demonstrated the 'world's smallest shooting game,' a unique nanoscale game inspired by classic arcade games. This achievement was ...

Cooling Materials -- Out of the 3D Printer

Feb. 20, 2025 — Rapid, localized heat management is essential for electronic devices and could have applications ranging from wearable materials to burn treatment. While so-called thermoelectric materials convert ...

For Success in Bioelectronics, Build With Nature-Inspired Design

Feb. 19, 2025 — Researchers have 3D printed bioelectronic scaffolds that have the properties cells need to form new ...

Fully 3D-Printed Electrospray Engine

Feb. 14, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated the first fully 3D-printed, droplet-emitting electrospray engine. The low-cost device can be fabricated more quickly than traditional thrusters, potentially from on board a ...

Recyclable Plastic for the Printer

Feb. 13, 2025 — The possibilities for material design and production of plastic components are being expanded through 3D printing technology. However, there is a shortage of recyclable polymers that meet the ...

New 3D Printing Method Replicates Nature's Finest Fibers

Feb. 13, 2025 — Researchers have been trying to find new ways to produce and replicate the various useful features observed in nature. Fine hairs and fibers, which are ubiquitous in nature, are useful for various ...

Holograms Boost 3D Printing Efficiency and Resolution

Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists have used holographic projections to bring unprecedented resolution to a light-based 3D printing technique. The method allows the fabrication of millimeter-scale objects within seconds ...

Printable Molecule-Selective Nanoparticles Enable Mass Production of Wearable Biosensors

Feb. 3, 2025 — Researchers have developed a way to print nanoparticles like ink, creating inexpensive sweat sensors that can continuously monitor multiple ...

The Importance of Eco-Friendly Sensors in Global Food Supply

Jan. 21, 2025 — Researchers present paper-based temperature and humidity sensors that are accurate, reliable, and eco-friendly. The team created the sensors by printing silver lines on commercially available paper ...

Electric Fungi: The Biobattery That Needs to Be Fed

Jan. 9, 2025 — A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery. The living battery could supply power to sensors ...

Big Leap Forward for Environmentally Friendly 'E-Textiles' Technology

Jan. 2, 2025 — A research team has shown wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) can be both sustainable and ...

How to Print a Car: High-Performance Multi-Material 3D Printing Techniques

Dec. 17, 2024 — A future where lightweight car parts can be made with a 3D printer is here, thanks to multi-material additive manufacturing ...

Scientists Develop 3D Concrete Printing Method That Captures Carbon Dioxide

Dec. 16, 2024 — Scientists have developed a 3D concrete printing method that captures carbon, demonstrating a new pathway to reduce the environmental impact of the construction ...

Researchers 3D Print Compact, Low-Cost Vortex Beam Generators

Dec. 12, 2024 — Researchers have developed a 3D-printed device that generates twisting light beams with orbital angular momentum (OAM), a form of rotational energy that can carry more data than regular ...

New Bioprinting Technique Creates Functional Tissue 10x Faster

Dec. 3, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel bioprinting technique that uses spheroids, which are clusters of cells, to create complex tissue. This new technique improves the precision and scalability of ...

Temporary Tattoo Printed Directly on the Scalp Offers Easy, Hair-Friendly Solution for Measuring Brainwaves

Dec. 2, 2024 — Scientists have invented a liquid ink that doctors can print onto a patient's scalp to measure brain activity. The technology offers a promising alternative to the cumbersome process currently ...

New 3D Printing Approach Means Better Biomedical, Energy, Robotics Devices

Dec. 2, 2024 — A researcher has helped create a new 3D printing approach for shape-changing materials that are likened to muscles, opening the door for improved applications in robotics as well as biomedical and ...

3D-Printing Advance Mitigates Three Defects Simultaneously for Failure-Free Metal Parts

Nov. 22, 2024 — Engineers have found a way to simultaneously mitigate three types of defects in parts produced using a prominent additive manufacturing technique called laser powder bed ...

Revolutionary High-Speed 3D Bioprinter Hailed a Game Changer for Drug Discovery

Nov. 1, 2024 — Biomedical engineers have invented a 3D printing system, or bioprinter, capable of fabricating structures that closely mimic the diverse tissues in the human body, from soft brain tissue to harder ...

Development of a Simple, Revolutionary Printing Technique for Periodic Nano/microstructures

Oct. 31, 2024 — A team of researchers has developed a printing technique capable of forming a periodic nano/microstructure on the surface of a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) slab and easily transferring it onto the ...

New Solvent-Free 3D Printing Material Could Enable Biodegradable Implants

Oct. 28, 2024 — Researchers have invented a new solvent-free polymer for digital light printing (DLP), a type of 3D printing that essentially pulls solid objects out of a shallow pool of resin one layer at a time. ...

From Accessibility Upgrades to a Custom Cat-Food Bowl, This Mobile 3D Printer Can Autonomously Add Features to a Room

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers created MobiPrint, a mobile 3D printer that can automatically measure a room and print objects onto the floor. The team's graphic interface lets users design objects in a space that ...

Major Step Toward Fully 3D-Printed Active Electronics

Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers produced 3D-printed, semiconductor-free logic gates, which perform computations in active electronic devices. As they don't require semiconductor materials, they represent a step ...