Exclusive Interview: Chitonous Hopes to Use Ubiquitous Biological Polymers for Manufacturing
I can’t remember when a startup so excited me as Chitonous does. This one is a long shot but it could fundamentally change how we design and consume materials for…
Sweden: Researchers 3D Printing with Wood-Based Ink for Greener Manufacturing
Wood materials would normally be impossible to process without a range of sharp tools to manipulate them into the desired form; however, as researchers often are famous for (within the…
MIT Developments: A Faster 3D Printer and Antibacterial 3D Printed Cellulose
Researchers at MIT have developed a new 3D printer print head that can deposit material at extremely high speed, creating objects in minutes instead of hours. A. John Hart, a professor…
Promising New Bioprinting Ink Formulated from Alginate and Cellulose Nanocrystals
3D bioprinting is an exciting subject – and a highly complex one. Organs don’t just materialize out of a 3D printer; there’s a long process that must be undertaken. In…
Researchers 3D Print Large-Scale Objects with Newly Developed Type of Cellulose
Cellulose is the most abundant organic compound on Earth, and researchers have been working on ways to 3D print it and take advantage of its ready availability. There are still…
New 3D Printing Material Uses Cellulose for Sustainability and Quality
New 3D printing materials are being developed regularly, and they’re not being made solely from plastic or metal. Scientists are creating materials from all sorts of natural substances, from algae to…
Bagasse Fibers as Bioink: Research Shows That Sugarcane Waste is Suitable for 3D Printing
Spreading like technological tendrils, new 3D printing hardware, software, and materials are available in countless forms around the globe today—and researchers just keep blowing our minds with new methods for…
The Princess Leia Project: Researchers Use Lasers to Create 3D Image Projections
If you’re a Star Wars fan, you’ll remember the iconic scene from the very first movie where R2D2 projects an image of Princess Leia to Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi,…
Flubber, 3D Printed Flink and R&D Tax Credits
Unrealistic scientific discoveries from our beloved childhood movies may be coming to life in today’s science community. In the 1960’s Disney movie The Absent-Minded Professor, Professor Brainard creates a substance…
