Research & Education
Jellatech reaches new milestone in collagen bioink development
North Carolina-based biotech startup Jellatech announced its major milestone achievement in producing cell-based collagen. After only 2 years in existence, Jellatech is now announcing...
Researchers use 3D printing for titanium electrodes in battery
In a scientific paper published in ChemElectroChem, engineers from Belgium and Germany successfully demonstrated the fabrication and testing of a titanium slurry electrode, proving...
Researchers use 3D printing to develop new materials
Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has developed a breakthrough method for faster discovery and...
Caltech enables 3D Printing of Optical Devices at Nanoscale
A new technology developed at Caltech allows researchers to "engineer" optical devices and then print them out using a special 3D printer. These devices...
Researchers develop laser printing process to rapidly print micrometer-sized parts
Printing objects from plastic precisely, quickly, and inexpensively is the goal of many 3D printing processes. However, speed and high resolution remain a technological...
3D Laser Printed Glass Chips Accelerate Fiber Optics
An international team of researchers from Japan, Australia, the Netherlands and Italy has set a new speed record for standard fiber optic cables. The...
US researchers develop tiny 3D-printed robots for medicine
Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new class of tiny robots that can move themselves through liquids. The 20-micrometer "microrobots"...
3D-printed eye implant could treat diabetes
Researchers at KTH Stockholm and Karolinska Institutet have developed a 3D-printed implant for the eye that could be used to treat diabetes. The implant...
Plasmonic plastic enables 3D printing of optical sensors
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a novel plasmonic plastic that can be 3D printed. As they show in a...
Entering a new era of 3D printing of DNA and proteins
3D bioprinting is a useful technique that ranges from reconstructive plastic surgery to the fabrication of artificial organs. However, many biopolymers, such as nucleic...
