3D Printed Heat Exchanger 'More Efficient' than Conventional Designs. A new type of lightweight, 3D printed heat exchanger with a maze-like design is more compact and efficient than its conventional counterparts, its developers say. A team led by engineers from the University of Glasgow have...
Researchers Establish First-of-its-kind Framework to Diagnose 3D-printing Errors. Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, can create custom parts for electromagnetic devices on-demand and at a low cost. These devices are highly sensitive, and each component requires precise fabrication. Until...
Researchers are using a specially designed polymer to bind 3D-printed sand structures using the additive manufacturing technique of binder jetting. Scientists from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA, have tailored polyethylenimine (PEI) to enable sand structures with intricate...
Boeing and Titomic Partner to Expand Use of Titanium in Aerospace Industry. In the aerospace industry, additive manufacturing is increasing becoming a major technology. Because of its benefits, such as design freedom and reduced building time and costs, 3D printing has attracted many players in...
The Best 3D Printing Videos From 2021. The year 2021 has come to an end and 3Dnatives is taking a look at some of the best videos from the past 12 months. Between building houses, bridges, robots or car parts, the technology has developed greatly over the past year. Other industries, such as...
Machine Learning: The Importance of Artificial Intelligence for Additive Manufacturing. For many companies, digitization and automation are the keys to the further development of additive manufacturing. Thus, more and more manufacturers are relying on cloud-based solutions and integrating...
The 2021 Edition of Additive’s Leading Survey Report on Post-Printing Trends The 3rd annual report of the Additive Manufacturing Post-Printing Industry Trends Survey is now available. This one-of-a-kind compilation summarizes key highlights and insights providing an in-depth look from the end...
3D Printing is Approaching Atomic Dimensions. 3D printing has established itself in recent years as a promising new manufacturing process for a wide variety of components. The Oldenburg chemist Dr. Dmitry Momotenko has now succeeded in producing extremely small metal objects using a new 3D...
Self-healing 3D Printed Plastic can Repair Itself Using Only Light. UNSW engineers have demonstrated a way to help 3D printed plastic heal itself at room temperature using only lights. Professor Cyrille Boyer and his team in the UNSW School of Chemical Engineering have shown that the addition...
Research firm IDTechX recently published a new report examining micro-trends in additive manufacturing materials for 2022. The study examines four families of materials, namely polymers, metals, ceramics, and composites. For each of these families, IDTechX makes several predictions such as the...