smart materials
3D Printing News Briefs, March 30, 2023: Rubber 3D Printing Service, Titanium Powder, & More
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Authentise released its RFQ Responder, and Chromatic launched a rapid custom rubber 3D printing service. Sticking with materials, IperionX and SLM Solutions signed an…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: September 11, 2022
We’ve got several in-person events to tell you about in today’s roundup, as SMASIS, IMTS, and more will be held this week. Webinars will focus on topics including post-processing, using…
Improving Mechanical Properties of 3D Printing with Continuous Carbon Fiber Shape Memory Composites
Researchers Yongsan An and Woon-Ryeol Yu explore improved 3D printing through the study of alternative materials. In the recently published ‘Three-dimensional printing of continuous carbon fiber-reinforced shape memory polymer composites,’…
Smart Materials: 3D Printing Self-Healing Capsules for Concrete
In ‘3D printed capsules for self-healing concrete applications,’ researchers are exploring the world of self-healing materials further, with the creation of macro-capsules that can actually be filled with a variety…
Indiana Researchers: 3D Printing Smart Multimaterial Fibers & Sensors
In ‘Towards Digital Manufacturing of Smart Multimaterial Fibers,’ Indiana researchers explore the use of fibers in 3D printing, along with the potential for expanding their functionality into smart materials that…
Berkeley Researchers Studying Progress & Challenges in 4D Printing
While 3D printing allows for many users to create complex geometries not before possible, 4D printing does that and more with materials and textures that respond to their environment and…
Rutgers Engineers 4D Printing Smart Metamaterials for Industrial Applications
Engineers at Rutgers University–New Brunswick are advancing beyond the realm of 3D printing, now fabricating smart materials in 4D that will transform as needed, according to their environment. Such structures…
Researchers Create Smart Composite Material from Graphene Oxide and Seaweed-Derived Alginate
Usually when I think about seaweed, I’m trying to decide which particular sushi roll to order at dinner. But a team of researchers from Brown University in Rhode Island, which…
3DPrint.com Interviews Cole Brubaker of Halmos Technologies for nanofunctionalized materials for 3D printing
A few weeks ago we read about Cole Brubaker’s fascinating research at Vanderbilt University on nanofunctionalized materials for 3D printing. Together with a team, he had looked into gold nanoparticles and…
Rutgers Engineers Develop 4D Printing Method for Shape-Shifting Hydrogels
Whenever I hear the term shape-shifting, I always picture some scary creature from a horror movie that’s able to change its form instantly to capture victims and is *probably* not…
Researchers Turn to Multi-Material 3D Printing to Develop Responsive, Versatile Smart Composites
3D printing technology has been used multiple times to help create drug delivery and release systems, from programmable release capsules and cancer drug-emitting implants to micro-rockets that deliver drugs inside…
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…
4D Printing on The Nanoscale — Northwestern’s IIN Receives $8.5 Million Grant
As 3D printing has barely slid into the category of being considered a new normal, some scientists and researchers are already living in the world of 4D. You may have…
Goldilocks Principle: Researchers Explore New Particle Manipulation Technique for 3D Printing
The Goldilocks Principle is a concept that can be applied to a number of different situations, and today, it’s making headlines to the contrary in regards to how enhancing microscopic…
