Micro 3D printing
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Microlight3D, a specialty manufacturer of high-resolution, micro-scale 2D and 3D printing systems for industrial and scientific applications, has launched eight new resins, with diverse properties, for mechanical meta-materials and life sciences applications. The range of resins is flexible, rigid, and biocompatible, and creates opportunities for developers to explore 3D microprinting…
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The Australian National Fabrication Facility – Queensland Node (ANFF-Q) based at the University of Queensland, Australia has purchased Multiphoton’s recently-launched MPO 100 two-photon polymerization tool. The system, developed by Multiphoton Optics GmbH, and manufactured by its parent company Heidelberg Instruments Mikrotechnik GmbH, will provide cutting-edge micro- and nano-fabrication fabrication capabilities…
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A new type of lightweight, 3D printed heat exchanger with a maze-like, repeating gyroid architecture design is more compact and efficient than its conventional counterparts, its developers say. A team led by engineers from the University of Glasgow has developed the system, which exploits the unique properties of microscale surfaces…
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Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a highly specialized 3D printing technique (using vat photopolymerization technology) that allows microfluidic channels to be fabricated on chips at a precise microscale not previously achieved. Microfluidic devices are compact testing tools made up of tiny channels…
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OPT Industries, the manufacturing technology startup behind the InstaSwab high-efficacy medical applicator, has raised $15 million in Series A financing led by global science- and technology-driven venture capital firm Northpond Ventures with participation from existing investors Crosslink Capital and the MIT-affiliated E14 Fund. The funding will go towards the development…
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Dr. TieJun Zhang’s team at Khalifa University has developed a new way to 3D print reservoir rock replicas that have complex porous structures and mimic a carbonate rock’s natural mineralogy. The rocks, micro 3D printed using PµSL technology from BMF (Boston Micro Fabrication), are transparent, and allow researchers to image precisely…
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Researchers from the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, have used the microArch S140, a microscale 3D printer from Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF), to help fabricate miniaturized vessels called hydrowells for culturing 3D cellular spheroids under microgravity conditions. The effort was part…
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Nanoscribe, a BICO company, introduced the Extra Large Features (XLF) Print Set, to expand the manufacturing range for its high-precision 3D printer Quantum X shape, from nano- and microscale structures to millimeter- and centimeter-sized objects, while maintaining particularly complex structures and filigree details. But above all, the new XLF Print…
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Heidelberg Instruments, through the recently acquired Multiphoton Optics, presented the new two-photon polymerization MPO 100 3D printer, a multi-user tool that combines both the requirements of 3D lithography with resolutions in the 100 nm range and 3D microprinting with structure heights of over one centimeter, all in one device. “The…
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Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF), a pioneer in microscale 3D printing systems, has expanded global operations with new state-of-the-art facilities in Greater Boston and Shenzhen, China. This news comes after a monumental year for BMF – and for micro 3D printing applications – as the company significantly grew global revenue in…
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