15+ hour, 41+ min ago  (175+ words) Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon's Institute of Functional Materials for Sustainability in Teltow, Germany, have created a water-based 3D printing ink composed of approximately 70% lignin, a byproduct of paper-making processes and biomass extraction." The ink was designed for direct ink writing,…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (394+ words) A team of researchers at Penn State University has developed a 4D printing technique for programmable hydrogel films that hide and reveal embedded images in response to environmental triggers, with potential applications in adaptive camouflage and information encryption. The synthetic material…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (280+ words) Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a process for 3D printing construction-grade structural elements using recycled plastic. The team's design is for a 3D printed floor truss system, but load-bearing tests performed as part of their research indicate…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (233+ words) Here are FOMAS Group's key alloys for energy AM applications: FOMAS Group, in partnership with 3D Energy, 3D printed a labyrinth cage using MIMETE V 718. By additively manufacturing this part'designed for a high-temperature gas valve for a gas plant in Africa'the partners…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (686+ words) This article was originally published in VoxelMatters" Metal AM Focus 2025 eBook. The full edition can be found here. Unlike most previously seen direct precious metal 3D printed products, which have been mostly experimental or one-off products, the T'saire Collection marks the…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (239+ words) The idea originated in an engineering classroom at CU Boulder, where a student team led by integrated design engineering major Ian Mcleod first explored ways to repurpose failed prints and excess support structures generated from PLA filament. With the support…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (611+ words) Tess Boissonneault is a Montreal-based content writer and editor with five years of experience covering the additive manufacturing world. She has a particular interest in amplifying the voices of women working within the industry and is an avid follower of…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (212+ words) Nanoribbons are extremely thin, narrow pieces of material, usually just a few nanometers (one billionth of a meter) thick and spanning from tens to hundreds of nanometers in width. HEO nanoribbons belong to a special type of ribbon-like strips called…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (221+ words) According to The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Shiyao Lin, a researcher in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, in the College of Engineering, has been awarded funding to launch a new investigative project, titled "Novel Damage-Tolerant Composites…...

7+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (647+ words) Tess Boissonneault is a Montreal-based content writer and editor with five years of experience covering the additive manufacturing world. She has a particular interest in amplifying the voices of women working within the industry and is an avid follower of…...