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Researchers from Northwestern University have been developing a stereolithography-based 3D printing technology that is capable of incredibly high throughputs and large scale prints. Now, the team has unveiled its technology—called HARP (High-Area Rapid Printing)—and revealed that it is just 18 months away from commercializing it. At 13 feet in height,…
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A team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM) has produced a scaled gas turbine demonstrator model using additive manufacturing to showcase both the potentials and limitations of powder bed fusion technologies. The model, a 1:25 scale version of a power generation gas turbine, was almost…
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A joint team of researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong have unlocked dramatically faster nanoscale 3D printing rates thanks to a new time-based technique for controlling the light from an ultrafast laser. The new approach can reportedly achieve fabrication speeds up…
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A multidisciplinary team from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop autonomous, mobile construction 3D printers. Down the line, the researchers hope that their work will untether 3D printers, so to speak, and enable them to build…
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Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK are developing a new 3D printing method for soft materials. The process, called Suspended Layer Additive Manufacturing (SLAM), can be used for biomaterials such as gels and collagens and could have applications in producing artificial implants for the medical sector. 3D…
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In a story that feels very much about restoring balance to the world, in line with the Navajo tradition, the Navajo Nation’s NTUCAM (Navajo Technical University Center for Advanced Manufacturing) is partnering with Optomec, a global supplier of production-grade metal AM systems, to head into and lead the future of…
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The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (CCDC-ARL) has awarded $25 million to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to continue developing and advancing a cold spray 3D printing technique which could have applications repairing vehicles and military equipment in the field. With a strong background and experience…
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Icing is an issue that has plagued aircraft manufacturers and operators for a long time. Evidently, I’m not talking about cake icing or the hockey infraction. Rather, icing refers to the phenomenon when ice forms on an aircraft’s wings on the ground or in flight. Today, aerospace engineers and researchers…
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Metal AM post-processing is a broad category and has long been considered the most time-intensive part of the additive manufacturing workflow. It is often more expensive and time-consuming than the printing process itself. And yet it is, in one form or another, taken as a given in metal additive manufacturing.…
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A team from aerospace and defense tech company Northrop Grumman is working to showcase the viability and reliability of electronics 3D printing by testing the performance of 3D printed electronic structures. The study, which was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, leverages Optomec’s Aerosol Jet…
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