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Earwig Wings Inspire Researchers to 3D Print Multimaterial, Self-Folding Origami Elements
Many scientists have been inspired by wings, be they bat, bird, or butterfly, in their 3D printing research projects. A team of researchers from ETH Zurich and Purdue University have…
3D Printing News Briefs: February 2, 2018
In celebration of finally leaving the long month of January behind, we’ll start today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with some good news – Carbon is celebrating its fifth anniversary! Moving…
Medical 3D Printing Breakthroughs in 2017
Every year, great strides are made in medical 3D printing. Stories that used to be headline news around the world are now becoming more commonplace as personalized healthcare is here…
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…
Biocompatible 3D Printing Ink Developed with Living Bacteria May See Biotechnology and Medical Use
3D printing technology is pretty amazing, but it’s one thing to print something out of material like plastic or metal, and quite another to 3D print living matter. The science…
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology: Researchers Use Heat for Greater Success in 4D Printing
Interest in 4D printing has continued to grow as scientists have expanded their research into creating items and materials that are helpful to research (as well as many other industries,…
HP Announces New Customers, Resellers, and Service Bureaus in Europe
Last year, HP Inc. unveiled its anticipated and exciting Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing technology to the world during RAPID, more than a year after it was first announced by…
FreeFAB 3D Printing Technique Comes to Life in the Crossrail Project
The largest construction project in Europe right now involves digging a new railway system, running east to west across London. Called Crossrail, the ambitious project will result in a railway…
ETH Zurich Researchers Use 3D Printing Technology to Create First Silicone Artificial Heart for Testing Purposes
We’ve seen plenty of 3D printed heart models used as helpful surgical planning tools, and 3D printing technology has helped with heart conditions in many other ways, like 3D printed…
Cytosurge Develops Nanoscale FluidFM into Consumer-Friendly 3D Printing Process
FluidFM is a technology that has been around for quite a while, but it’s also constantly developing and changing – much like 3D printing in general. The technology was originally…
DFAB House Brings ETH Zurich 3D Printing and Digital Construction Techniques from Research Lab to Construction Site
Most people, by now, have at least heard about 3D printed houses and other structures. They’re not exactly commonplace, yet, and they’re still amazing to think about and to see,…
ETH Zurich Shares Details on How 3D Printing Helped Their Concrete Canoe Sail to Victory
You learn something new every day, and one thing I learned recently is that concrete canoe competitions are a thing. We recently covered one of them, as it featured a…
ETH Zurich Researchers Develop Load-Bearing 4D Printed Structures
While 3D printing still seems like magic for some people, the novelty has worn off for others – but I doubt that’s true for many people regarding 4D printing. 3D…
Empa Researchers Develop Eco-Friendly Cellulose 3D Printing Ink
Cellulose is the main building block of plant material, and it may become the main building block of many 3D printed items, as well. The all-natural, eco-friendly, abundant material has…
Zurich Researchers Build Tiny Redox Flow Battery, Supplied with Electrolytes Thanks to 3D Printing
Scientists and researchers from ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich have built an extremely small redox flow battery – it’s only around 1.5mm thick, and can potentially provide energy to…
Digital Fabrication in Architecture and 3D Printing Materials in Focus at AAAS Annual Meeting
The use of 3D printing in the construction field is not a new thing – there are 3D printed office buildings and laboratories, a 9-foot-tall 3D printed pavilion, 3D printed…
Researchers Win Swiss Technology Award for Work in 3D Printing and Reverse Engineering with Concrete
Reverse engineering is one of those methods that is fascinating to many because it means you have to think about a project—in reverse. Even if we have no idea how…
Disney Research Devises a Method of 3D Printing Models That Balance or Breakdance
It’s incredibly frustrating when you spend hours – or days – designing and 3D printing a perfect figurine or other decorative object only to have it refuse to stand up…
Castles in the Sand: Adam Kushner Discusses 3D Printing Architecture at Inside 3D Printing New York
One of my great passions is my love of architecture. My father had his own architectural practice for nearly 40 years and my grandfather had his own architectural firm, too….
New Technique Takes Multicolor 3D Printing to New Heights
There are quite a few limitations that are still keeping 3D printing technology from reaching its full potential, including build size constraints, material restrictions, and the lack of multicolor printing…
The Jamming Phenomenon: 3D Printing with String & Rocks May Change the Face of Architecture
Just pull the string and the whole thing comes down. While that’s some highly engineered string, the concept may simplify the world of architecture and construction in terms of materials…
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…
Nanodrip 3D Printing Technology May Soon Enable Lightning Fast Touchscreen Devices
I was having a lot of trouble with my smartphone the other night. I just got the thing about six months ago, and it’s already acting up. It keeps freezing,…
Nano-Scale 3D Printing Technology Helps Researchers Print the Smallest Color Picture Ever Printed
Measuring itself at an astoundingly tiny 0.0092 mm, or 80 µm x 115 µm, in size Guinness World Records Limited has just named ETH Zurich and their spin off company…
