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Asahi Kasei and Aquafil’s New PA6 3D Printing Filament Is Reinforced with Cellulose Nanofibers

Materials firm Asahi Kasei and circular materials firm Aquafil have collaborated to introduce a new filament. The filament is a polyamide PA 6 called ECONYL. This material is chemically recycled…

3D Printing News Briefs, September 1, 2024: Conductive Silver Ink, Egg Whites, Wood Pulp, & More

We’re taking care of business first in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, and then moving on to news about a variety of different 3D printing materials, including egg whites. We’ll…

An Intertwined Future: 3D Printing Nanocellulose

Nanocellulose is an exciting new group of materials that could be widely used in manufacturing. Nanocellulose, also called nano cellulose, cellulose nanofibers (CNF), cellulose nanocrystal (CNC), and microfibrillated cellulose (MFC),…

Use of Simulation to Evaluate How Well 3D Printing Bioinks Work

Plenty of research has been completed regarding the different materials we use to create biomedical parts. Many innovative bioinks – biomaterials loaded with cells to 3D print biological structures – have…

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…

VTT Studying Nanocellulose and 3D Printing for Wound Care and Decoration

For the past two years, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, a top research and technology company in the Nordic countries, has been developing new bio-material applications for cellulose-based compounds…