Research & Education
Additive manufacturing is transforming how products are designed, produced, and serviced. AM lets us produce on-demand, without dedicated equipment or tooling. This unparalleled flexibility enables new digital design and production tools that can create components and products with breakthrough performance: in order to truly unlock the potential of AM, research & education is of fundamental importance.
Knowledge of the fundamentals of AM, its design principles, applications, and implications is one of the greatest barriers to its wider adoption. In recent years the key importance of integrating additive manufacturing in educational curricula has begun to be considered worldwide.
Additive manufacturing centered research & education initiatives by both governments and corporations – as well as individuals – have begun to focus on raising the next generation of additive manufacturing designers and engineers.
The main areas of exploration for educational activities are in software and hardware. While AM hardware learning is currently mostly limited to exploring the current additive production process and its applications, the software offers some of the most significant opportunities in terms of learning to fully exploit the AM process in the future.
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Additive Academy is a new training and education initiative created to bring cutting edge and comprehensive additive manufacturing and 3D printing training from across the globe on one platform to the vibrant 3D printing market in India. “India will gain true industrial independence only if manufacturing comes to India along…
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Tomas Maccio, Laboratories Team Leader Additive Manufacturing at TWI, published an impressive video showing highly flexible 3D printed sheets of… tungsten. The term flexible tungsten is rarely seen as tungsten, a refractory metal, is known as one of the toughest things found in nature. It is super dense and almost…
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A research team from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has drawn inspiration from hair to develop a 3D printable textile that changes its form based on moisture exposure using a shape memory concept. As even the most coiffed hair often becomes curly or…
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A crucial element to keeping tissues and organs healthy is oxygen, whether they’re in the body or bioprinted in a lab. Typically, the oxygen is delivered to tissues via blood, which is carried in vessels, delivering the vital element and nutrients. In the case of bioprinting, however, vasculature inside a…
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3D printing has already proved useful in the mass production of nasal swabs for COVID-19 testing, but now a team from the School of Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton has taken the medical devices to the next level. In short, it has developed a 3D printed smart swab that…
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There is no question about additive manufacturing’s ability to produce complex, highly integrated geometries: in fact, this capability is one of the technology’s main advantages. Despite this, one of the hurdles to the broad implementation of AM has been actually creating these complex designs in the first place. That is,…
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Canadian bioprinter developer Aspect Biosystems has launched a new grant program aimed at promoting the use of bioprinting in research and making it more accessible. The program, which is now accepting applications, will provide an RX1 bioprinter to two research labs at no cost for a six-month period. The eligibility…
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Purdue University’s College of Engineering has received a grant worth $800,000 from the Department of Energy to accelerate the development of a 3D printed microreactor. The funding, provided through the Nuclear Energy University Program, will allow Purdue to become a key player in the Transformational Challenge Reactor (TCR) Demonstration Program…
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Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) have developed a Multi Material Jetting system that is capable of additively manufacturing parts that integrate multiple materials, including ceramics and metals. The process could enable the production of parts with tunable properties, including insulating or conductive properties, for…
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As a pioneer in the AM space, Dr. Joseph DeSimone’s resume is already highly impressive. Not only is he the co-founder of innovative 3D printing company Carbon, but he has also enjoyed a 30-year career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NC State University. Now, Dr.…
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