conductive materials
3D Printing News Briefs: December 2, 2019
We’re finishing up with formnext news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to a presentation and some business. Flightware presented its work on LPBF in-situ inspection…
3D Printing with Conductive Polymer Nanocomposites for Smart Textiles
In the recently published ‘FDM 3D printing of conductive polymer nanocomposites: A novel process for functional and smart textiles,’ dissertation student Razieh Hashemi Sanatgar explores digital fabrication with composites for…
Nanyang Technological University: Inkjet Printing of ZnO Micro-Sized Thin Films
In ‘Inkjet-printed ZnO thin film semiconductor for additive manufacturing of electronic devices,’ thesis student Van Thai Tran, from Nanyang Technological University, delves into the realm of fabricating products with conductive…
Researchers Demonstrate Wideband Metamaterial Absorber Made of 3D Printed Conductive Plastic
There’s been a lot of research into 3D printing metamaterials over the years – due to their unique properties, they’ve been used to make everything from headphones and heart valve…
Estonian Researchers Create 3D Printable Peat Mixture for Cost-Effective Home Construction
By using 3D printing to fabricate structures ranging from hotels and houses to bridges and bus stops, the global construction industry is able to lower costs and increase production speeds, along with making improved, eco-friendly structures with…
Advancing the Field of Flexible Electronics with 3D Printable Liquid Metal Alloy
Whenever I hear about liquid metal, I will always picture the T-1000 from Terminator 2 first. But in reality, 3D printed liquid metal can be used to develop innovations that are far…
Fraunhofer ILT Researching Green Lasers for 3D Printing Copper
I remember how surprised I was when I first learned that a laser was not only a light-emitting device, but also an acronym for “light amplification by stimulated emission of…
Skin Inspires Creation of 3D Printable, Conductive Self-Healing Hydrogel
The ability to heal was once thought to be relegated to living things only, but that’s not the case anymore, thanks to technology. A great deal of work has been…
Graphene 3D Lab Introduces New Conductive Flexible TPU Filament for 3D Printed Wearable Electronics, Medical Devices and More
Graphene 3D Lab‘s business is pretty obvious just from their name: they manufacture and sell graphene 3D printing materials. As graphene is the wonder material of the moment, that’s not…
3D Print Your Own Terminator, Complete With Red Glowing Eyes
There’s some scary stuff out there on the Internet – and a lot of it is 3D printable. Instructables is a hive of creative ideas for and by makers of…
Functionalize Shows You How to 3D Print Your Own Arduino Compatible WiFi-Connected Touchscreen Device
The endgame for 3D printing has always been the ability to 3D print complete objects regardless of their complexity. While there are already expensive, industrial 3D printers equipped with high-end…
New Functional Inks Help Create 3D Printed Electronic Radar Components
It seems that the list of things that can be 3D printed just keeps growing, and the things on that list just keep getting stranger. Researchers from the University of…
ETH Zurich and Cytosurge Introduce FluidFM: Metal 3D Printing on a Nano Level
Two of the fastest-growing segments of the additive manufacturing industry are metal 3D printing and micro 3D printing. It makes sense, then, that a combination of the two would be…
New Ultrasonic 3D Printing Process Can Create and Print High-Tech Composite Materials
3D printing materials are one of the most rapidly growing segments of the 3D printing industry, and we have more high-tech and advanced material options than ever before. But usable…
