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3D Printing News Briefs, June 3, 2023: Beta Software, 3D Printing Walls, & More

We’ll kick things off in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with software, as General Lattice released a beta version of its Frontier software, and a research team out of Ondokuz…

Researchers Recreate Hopping Disney/Pixar Lamp with 3D Printed Actuator

3D printing has previously been employed to create passive mechanisms and machines, as well as the actuators used to make them go. According to a new paper, titled “A Miniature…

3D Printing Patent Landscape

The field of 3D printing has been growing rapidly for years.  It has applications in many areas of life and the economy, such as healthcare, aerospace, and parts replacement.  3D…

Bubble Printing: Texas Researchers Develop New 3D Printing-like Method to Fabricate Quantum Dots

Semiconductor quantum dots are used in a number of applications, including light-emitting devices, displays and sensors, thanks to their properties of tunable fluorescence wavelength, narrow bandwidth and high brightness. Most…

TPE TopCon: A Look at 16 Top 3D Printing Stories of 2016

Yesterday in Akron, Ohio was the 12th TPE TopCon event, a conference dedicated to thermoplastics hosted by the Akron Section of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) and the TPE Special…

The Father of Selective Laser Sintering 3D Printing is Awarded as UT’s Inventor of the Year

The Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Texas is responsible for taking any scientific or biomedical discoveries made at the university and transitioning them into the marketplace. They…

University Researchers Create 3D Printed Micro-Needle, Pain-Free, Inserted Internally

Just the thought of a long, thin needle loaded with chemicals coming at us in the doctor’s office invokes anxiety in most. While the pain is rarely that severe, no…

Researchers Use DNA as ‘Smart Glue’ to Provide Structure for 3D Bio-Printing

The abilities of 3D printing to create bio-materials is on the cutting edge of science, but has been somewhat limited to date by technicalities like massive expenses and the fact…

Minuscule 3D Printed Device Helps Scientists Study Cardiovascular Structures in Mice

The flexibility of 3D printing is, quite literally, a key aspect of the research currently being conducted at the Center for Cardiovascular Simulation (CCS) at the University of Texas, Austin….