Research & Education
InnovationLab with a new focus on 3D printing technology
The InnovationLab (iL) - an innovation platform for collaboration between universities and industrial partners - will continue its work until the end of 2024...
3D printing of bionic jellyfish for ocean exploration
Jellyfish can do little more than swim, sting, eat and reproduce. They don't even have a brain. Yet these simple creatures can penetrate the...
China Opens First Medical 3D Printing R&D Center
China's first medical research and development center focused on 3D printing technology has recently been established in Changchun, a city located in the north...
Pros and Cons of 3D printed food
Scientists at Columbia University are studying the pros and cons of 3D-printed food technology. In a new Perspective article published by npj Science of Food,...
Researchers at TU Graz perfect 3D printing of optically active nanostructures
The shape, size and optical properties of 3-dimensional nanostructures can now be simulated in advance before they can be produced directly on a wide...
3D bioprinting: researchers create artificial nerve networks
Scientists at Monash University in Australia have successfully produced three-dimensional nerve networks using 3D bioprinting. To do so, they used special bio-inks with living...
3D printing enables cost-effective soft sensor skin for robots
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method for 3D printing soft, tactile sensor pads for robots. The inexpensive, replaceable pads...
Hannover Medical School successfully uses 3D-printed bone replacement material
BellaSeno has announced that a team at Hannover Medical School has successfully used a customized resorbable bone graft substitute using 3D printing. Prior to his...
3&DBot – 3D Printing Robot
A group of industrial designers of LIFE and NEXT, academic research laboratories of PUC-Rio in Brasil, developed a 3D printing robot with wireless controller...
“Frankenstein design” enables 3D-printed neutron collimator
In neutron experiments by researchers at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the time-honored strategy of divide and conquer took on...