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Sparc Technologies Breaks Ground on Facility for Graphene 3D Printing Materials

Australian startup Sparc Technologies, a materials science company focused on developing industrial applications for graphene, announced that it has begun construction of a production facility devoted to graphene-based additive manufacturing…

Researchers Model and 3D Print Graphene Electronic Devices

Made up of single atoms of carbon, graphene is thought to be a wonder material with a wide variety of applications, due to its high strength, lightweight, flexibility and unprecedented…

India: Scientists Explore the Miracle—and Toxicity—of Graphene in 3D Printing and Biomedical Applications

While hardware, software, and a variety of design mechanisms are critical to 3D printing, materials science lies at the heart of this progressive technology, continuing to infiltrate the mainstream today….

Research Leads to Swedish Startup and New 3D Printable Graphene Material

The way we talk about graphene, which is often used in 3D printing applications, it’s almost like the one-atom-thick, two-dimensional carbon material is magical. Graphene is lightweight, and is both…

Clemson University Scientists Generate Clean Energy with 3D Printed Graphene

You’ve likely heard of some of the most common sources of green energy – solar, wind, etc. Fewer people are familiar, however, with triboelectricity. Triboelectricity is generated when certain materials…

3D Printed Sensor Mimics Seal Whiskers to Detect Underwater Vortices

The word pinniped refers to semi-aquatic fin- or flipper-footed mammals, including to seals, sea lions and walruses. These creatures also have whiskers, which are part of what makes them so…

Graphene Aerogel Now Holds Guinness World Record for Lightest 3D Printed Structure

There’s a Guinness World Record category for just about everything these days. There’s a record for largest collection of stuffed crocodiles, and a record for fastest text message typed while…

Researchers Use 3D Printing to Potentially Produce Graphene in Bulk Quantities

Graphene is a material that has generated a lot of excitement, in the 3D printing industry and beyond. It’s over 100 times stronger than steel, it’s lightweight, and it’s a…

Lighter-Than-Air Graphene 3D Printing Spurs R&D Tax Credit Opportunities

Graphene is a single-atomic layer of carbon atoms. Organized in a hexagonal lattice, it is considered a “wonder material” that contains an array of properties unparalleled in other structures and…

MIT Research Team Develops New Type of Strong, Lightweight 3D Graphene Material

All kinds of materials are being used in 3D printing these days, including super strong ones like Kevlar and fiberglass-reinforced nylons and Onyx by Markforged. Something scientists have also learned is that…

Graphene 3D Lab Develops and Patents State-of-the-Art G6-ImpactTM Graphene Composite

One of the most important factors to expanding the capabilities of 3D printing technology is the advancement of materials, the development of more functional and higher-quality filaments. With intensive material research…

3D Printing: The Stories We Missed This Week — September 3, 2016

From major business acquisitions to exploding rockets, it’s been quite a wild and bumpy ride into the weekend. Here’s a look back at some of the news that we didn’t manage…

Scientists Research Materials & New Processes for 3D Printing Ultra Light Graphene Aerogels

The doors that 3D printing has opened, one after the other—and at such an accelerated speed—are astounding and seemingly infinite. With incredible designs being produced in nearly every sector from…

Graphene 3D Lab Acquires Former Parent Company Graphene Laboratories Inc.

As a Graphene Laboratories spinout company, Graphene 3D Lab (V.GGG) was started to focus exclusively on developing materials and technology capable of turning the superhard material graphene into an additive manufacturing…

UK Researchers Look to Develop Long Lasting 3D Printed Graphene Batteries & Supercapacitors

In this day and age, where nearly everyone in the developed world has a smartphone or maybe even two, and with the future of battery operated vehicles looking incredibly bright, there is…

The Magic of Graphene Further Defined: Researchers Use Carbon Material for 3D Printing Wi-Fi Antennae

While graphene may be considered the golden goose of new materials emerging in the 3D printing industry, the fact that it is imbued with conductive features has been a source…

Graphene and BioElastomer Inks Could Result in 3D Printed Neurons

What if you could 3D print a brain or a working neurosystem? It’s not outside the realm of the possible – at least in a structural sense –  as a…

3D Printed Graphene Aerogel Microlattices Allow for Better Transport & Energy Storage

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are big fans of using 3D printing and that’s something for naysayers, growing few and far between these days, to note. From creating…

ICL Researchers Figure out How to 3D Print Pure Graphene

We’ve seen an incredible amount of research hours and dollars being poured into an area where the ‘miracle material’ graphene converges with what some may call a ‘miracle technology’ in…

President Obama Visits Boise State University – Checks Out 3D Printing Tech., Including 3D Printed Graphene Chips

I’m not political by any means, and personally I don’t affiliate myself with any particular political parties. I have some ideologies that would be considered conservative, while others would be more liberal…