AM Research
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Research teams and companies around the globe are investigating ways to improve additive manufacturing at all points in the process chain—from materials and process parameters, to the printing hardware and beyond. A recent development out of the RMIT University’s School of Engineering could lead to improvements in powder-based metal 3D…
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The University of Exeter has announced the acquisition of a new EOS P 810 laser sintering system for high temperature polymers. Working in collaboration with high performance materials specialist Victrex, the English university will seek to optimize VICTREX PAEK polymers and composite materials for EOS’ additive manufacturing platform to unlock…
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An international collaboration between France-based metal AM company AddUp Group and the DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seeks to further advance powder bed fusion 3D printing for the production of metal molds and tooling. The partners have signed a $2.7 million cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA). In the…
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Canadian footwear company Native Shoes is working with MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab and a team from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design to develop a new type of 3D printed shoe. The collaborative project, called Liquid Printed Natives, involves a novel liquid rubber 3D printing technique. Since 2009, Native…
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In October 2019, GE Additive and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) signed a five-year R&D agreement to jointly accelerate the industrialization of additive manufacturing. The partnership, which builds upon ORNL’s preceding work with Arcam (acquired by GE in 2016), seeks to establish reliability and consistency in the metal AM…
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The Navajo Technical University (NTU) and partners have received a grant from NASA to 3D print bi-metallic rocket engine parts for a 2024 lunar mission. The project, which also includes the Marshall Space Flight Center Advanced Manufacturing Center (MSFC), the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) and V&M Global Solutions, will…
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A research team based out of ETH Zurich has developed a way to store DNA-like information inside 3D printed objects. The novel approach could allow people to reproduce 3D printed objects without any external digital information, such as original CAD files. The innovative technology, dubbed the DNA of Things, was…
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Copper has been hot in 3D printing recently and titanium has been hot from the start of the metal AM industry. Now a study on a new titanium copper alloy, published in Nature Journal by RMIT researchers, combines the two materials in order to reduce the risk of cracking and deformation.…
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A team of researchers from Purdue University, Cornell University and Case Western Reserve University is drawing inspiration from bones to make stronger, more resilient 3D printed structures for buildings, aircraft and more. The researchers have recreated a specific beam structure found within natural bone that provides strength and lifelong wear…
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ETH researchers produced complex and highly porous glass objects using a special resin that can be cured with UV light in a novel glass photopolymerization process. Although it is very common (or maybe because of that) glass is the hardest material to effectively 3D print. In the limited number of…
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