3d printing bone requires a combination of a reabsorbable material such as a biodegradable polymer and an inorganic bioactive phase material such as ceramics.
CNTS are basically one-atom-thick graphene sheets rolled up onto themselves in order to form very long filaments with diameters of only a few nanometers. n this sense,
I think we will see them on the market shortly. s with many other 3d printing applications,
#Cancer Patient Receives 3d printed Sternum and Ribs in First of its Kind Surgery Only months after Australia scientific research arm launched its $6 million 3d printing facility,
CSIRO Lab 22 has begun already making a significant impact, helping to improve the life of one Spanish cancer patient.
With a 3d printed titanium sternum and rib implant, designed and manufactured by Lab 22 and Melbourne-based Anatomics,
However, 3d printing has been increasingly proven as the ideal method for creating complex, patient-specific implants.
Anatomics CEO Andrew Batty realized that the only process for producing such an implant was through metal 3d printing
which houses a variety of metal 3d printers and other additive technologies. Alex Kingsbury, Research Group Leader of Additive manufacturing at CSIRO, explained the benefits of 3d printing in surgical-grade titanium,
e built the implant using our $1. 3 million Arcam printer. The printer works by directing an electron beam at a bed of titanium powder
building the product up layer-by-layer until you have a complete implant. 3d printing has significant advantages over traditional manufacturing methods, particularly for biomedical applications.
Thanks to 3d printing technology and a unique resection template, we were able to create a body part that was customised fully
#First-of-its-Kind Nerve Regeneration Pulled Off with 3d printed Nerve Guides According to market research firm Gartner,
3d printing in the medical sector is climbing towards a peak of hypeability and nothing could be more hype-worthy than the regeneration of nerves after an injury.
and Johns hopkins university have created a first-of-its-kind 3d printed guide that helps restore sensory and motor functions to damaged nerves,
there may be a 3d printed solution. The multidisciplinary team was able to 3d print custom silicone guides infused with biochemical cues that proved to effectively regrow nerve tissue in lab rats.
which to create a guide specifically for the rat. 3d printed on a custom-built machine, the silicone guide was saturated with chemical cues (colored red and green in the video above) to trigger motor and sensory nerve growth.
With an accurate 3d scan and the subsequent 3d printed guide, the sciatic nerve Y-shape was regrown over the course of just a few months.
his represents an important proof of concept of the 3d printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries.
Someday we hope that we could have a 3d scanner and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function.
#UK Team Experiments with 4d printed Artificial Muscles 3d printing technology has impacted scientific research significantly, especially when it comes to replicating the inner workings of living beings.
4d printing can be defined as the combined use of advanced 3d printing technology and the change of form over time.
With their own version of 4d printing, Fergal B. Coulter and Anton Ianakiev are exploring the fabrication of artificial muscle by creating a system for producing seamless tubular silicone membranes with dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA
The team believes that the 3d printed muscles can eventually be used within soft biorobotic devices, creating flexible muscle-like functions at the cost of little energy.
The UK-based research team has created low-power artificial muscles with a customized Leapfrog Creatr 3d printer,
%and alumina trihydrate (5%).The modified 3d printing system was engineered to print multiple layers of the silicone rubber material at a consistent rate,
Each surface layer of the 3d printed silicone was coated with graphite, capable of acting as a DEA electrode.
The energy used in the shape change was kept to a minimum because of the compression within the 3d printed tubular structure.
and a modified 3d printing system, the research team was able to not only replicate the structure of the muscle,
Soft robotics is only one of the few industries that 3d printing technology has influenced, but Coulter and Ianakiev are giving us reason to believe that the combination of the two can take us into the fourth dimension of innovation a
#ORNL Unveils Symbiotic 3d printed Home & Car 3d printing is a technology that people are only beginning to understand.
And, because of that, its true potential has begun only to be explored. So, when a company like Local Motors 3d prints a car or Winsun, in China, 3d prints a complete mansion, theye really only demonstrated a proof of concept,
a simple exercise that proves to the world that 3d printing can be used to fabricate cars or houses.
The true benefits that 3d printing will be bring to the automotive world or to the field of construction remain to be seen.
as Oak ridge National Laboratory today unveils their first experiments in the Additive manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) project,
Described in the most basic way possible, the AMIE project is a 3d printed car and a 3d printed house.
consisting of a 3d printed home with a small kitchenette, entertainment area, and murphy bed with an accompanying Printed Utility Vehicle (PUV).
Fortunately, through their work with Local Motors, to develop the crowdsourcing auto manufacturer electric roadsters, Oak ridge had the Big Area Additive manufacturing (BAAM) machine.
Created with Local Motors and Cincinnati Inc, the BAAM was capable of printing the frame for a complete vehicle live on the floor of the IMTS trade show in Chicago about a year ago,
To do the actual design and assembly of the 3d printed home, ORNL partnered with two of the biggest names in the construction industry.
#UF Scientists Find Perfect Medium for 3d printing Complex Jelly-Soft Objects All paste-based pneumatic extrusion 3d printing processes (a type of 3d printing that is rapidly becoming a stand-alone sector for its many different possible
The same approach was used in a pneumatic extrusion 3d printing device in order to create several three dimensional and geometrically complex objects.
In order to demonstrate the possibilities of this new 3d printing method, the UFL researchers created several objects including even a soft artificial octopus,
That of 3d printing paste materials to form large complex structures was one of the biggest hurdles to overcome:
#Freedee Printing Solutions Launches Hungary First 3d Academy 3d Academy may be one of the top trends in European 3d printing lately.
and that are particularly receptive to new technologies such as 3d printing. So many 3d printing related ventures understood that they need to grow
and teach their own future audiences. As is often the case, imakr was one company that started this with the Myminifactory Academy.
one of Hungary first 3d printing and 3d scanning service and retailer. Several university decision makers, company partners and other Hungarian 3d printing ventures participated at the opening ceremony held last week.
György Simó, CEO of the company gave a short speech about the 3d Academy mission and their growing business.
The 3d Academy is an educational studio specialized in 3d printing, 3d modeling and 3d scanning.
It includes a demo Makerbot Innovation Center with access to several 3d printers. Besides offering workshops and trainings the classroom
The team goal is to create a knowledge hub where anyone interested in additive manufacturing can learn and experiment.
scalable 3d printer farm using Makerbot hardware and software, developed especially for schools and universities. At the 3d Academy, Freedee will have 10 Makerbot Replicators
and one Replicator Z18, complemented by several 3d scanners and educational materials. These will be used as a base for the courses aimed at the general public and for collaborations with public schools.
and creator of 3d printed parametric art, will contribute to the classes with his own experience as well as through exercises from the Makerbot in the classroom handbook.
Some feel learning about 3d printing could be useless since 3d printing, as we know it today,
While You Swim in the 3d printed Spongesuit Bikini As our oceans become more and more polluted by our habits of wasting
But a team of engineers from the University of California Riverside are trying to help clean up the mess with an amazing 3d printed concept called the Spongesuit bikini,
That when partners of New york city-based architecture and design firm Eray Carbajo came in with the idea to implement the material into a wearable technology
and thus the Spongesuit bikini was created by housing the pongematerial within a 3d printed swimsuit. The 3d printed elastomer body of the Spongesuit bikini has a unique, spiderweb-like design,
and acts as the structure for the pongetechnology filler. This way, the 3d printed lasto plasticholds the material in place,
while the material itself is able to absorb up to 25 times its own weight in pollutants
Held firmly by the 3d printed weblike design the pollutants are trapped within the pores of the material,
This 3d printed design and implemented pongematerial has been an effort that has been received well thus far, winning the Reshape 15 Wearable technology Competition
and has also been recognized at the Rome Maker Faire this October. The unique design gives it fashionable appeal,
and as hydrogen storage materials in next generation batteries. i
#Telomeres Implicated In Premature Aging Scientists have established successfully a comprehensive model of rare accelerated aging disorder, Hutchinson-gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), opening up the possibility of treatment for the rare disease.
This makes them more effective at delivering their payload. They can penetrate the cell, bypassing its outer membrane,
to provide transplanted organs or future artificial organ implants with the necessary connections to the rest of the body,
trapped in tumours to potentially deliver targeted, therapeutic payloads. The discovery, published online today in Nature Nanotechnology, details how Dr. Zheng and his research team created a new type of microbubble using a compound called porphyrin-a naturally occurring pigment in nature that harvests light.
#Graphene Manufacturer Angstron Develops Cost-Effective Thermal Foil Sheets for Smartphones Graphene Manufacturer Angstron Develops Cost-Effective Thermal Foil Sheets for Smartphones Published on March 30,
The graphene manufacturer foil sheets have been qualified for use by a major mobile electronics company. Angstron thermal foils are available in a variety of grades.
or graphene based supercapacitors for attaching redox active material on the current collector. Without the mass of binding materials, the hybrid electrode is a good candidate to make lightweight supercapacitors."
and broadly for 3d printing and microfluidic devices,"said Aizenberg.""Our new approach harnesses dynamic and responsive control over a highly sensitive and reversible gating mechanism,
or diagnose substances at a molecular level. ur system can do chemistry, biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, clinical diagnosis,
for many years, researchers have explored other options that would provide greater energy storage for a given weight.
what was a huge achievement for 3d printing in space by sending their Zero G 3d printer, capable of 3d printing without gravity, to the International space station.
There, it has 3d printed numerous components, including a now famous wrench and twenty-three other prints that have returned
Made In Space has been working on a commercial 3d printing lab that will be flown to the ISS later this year.
Dubbed the Additive manufacturing Facility (AMF), this platform was outfitted with the firm proprietary acuum-compatible extrusion heads Over the course of the last month,
the space-focused startup has been performing a round of tests on this next generation 3d printing system to demonstrate the ability to 3d print in the vacuum of space an image
hese preliminary tests, combined with our experience with microgravity additive manufacturing, show that the direct manufacturing of structures in space is possible using Made In Space developed technologies.
thereby promoting basic research in sustainable biofuels. This made the ORNL scientists to visualize several other applications.
there are no experimental data sets in the public domain. To compensate for the lack of such data
the'Augmented reality'or'Bionic Vision'revolution is said beginning Dr. David Markus, Vice president of Biomems.""We believe that EPGL will be a major player in this space going forward. g
#Universitat Jaume I Patents Graphene-Based Catalysts for Energy conversion and Storage Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I have developed materials based on graphene that can catalyse reactions for the conversion and storage of energy.
The technology patented by the UJI combines graphene and organometallic compounds in a single material without altering the most interesting properties of graphene,
such as its electrical conductivity. The technology, developed by the Group of Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis (QOMCAT) of the UJI, is of great interest to the energy industry
since it uses graphene for the first time as a support of organometallic compounds. These hybrid materials have catalytic properties
An easy and affordable system that allows that all the technology that is currently based on graphene can be converted easily using these new materials.
a type of solar power based on the ability of plants to transform sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugars.
and release their drug payloads specifically to these sites in the body. Enclosed within the platelet membranes are made nanoparticle cores of a biodegradable polymer that can be metabolized safely by the body.
This is already an innovation over attempts in the field that use graphene: DNA is a fairly sticky molecule
and Mos2 is considerably less adhesive than graphene. The team then created a nanopore on membrane, almost 3 nm wide.
Miao and his team plan to build on their results by studying how atoms are arranged in materials that possess magnetism or energy storage functions,
Tailored DNA structures could find targeted cells and release their molecular payload (drugs or antibodies) selectively into these cells."
Their development could also lead to advancements in the efficiency of solar energy capture. The carbon nanotubes in the devices function as antennas for capturing light.
Lithium-ion batteries have been used commonly in laptop and tablet computers, electric vehicles and renewable energy systems for more than two decades.
#Graphene Shows Potential for Energy-efficient Data storage Technologies Graphene can be used to produce energy-efficient, high-density memory chips.
Researchers at Stanford used graphene in three different ways to create data storage technology that has the best features of both volatile and nonvolatile silicon chips.
Engineers are presently trying to develop nanomaterial-based memory chips that perform better than their silicon counterparts to be used in low energy data centers and gadgets with a longer battery life.
despite its extremely high conductivity, graphene has been used in few practical electronic devices. Three graphene-centric memory technologies have been described in different articles published in Nature Communications, Applied Physics Letters and Nano Letters journals.
These studies were performed by an international group of collaborators led by Professor H.-S. Philip Wong and Pop.
The researchers used graphene to carrying the small jolts of electricity. Graphene is conductive even at very thin dimensions
which differentiates it from conventional metals. This enables fabrication of smaller RRAM cells that have the capacity to store more data than conventional metal-based conductors.
and Wong used graphene to advance the phase-change memory concept. Phase-change memory involves an alloy of germanium
Pop and Wong state that graphene unique thermal, electrical and atomically thin properties could help create data storage with better energy efficiency,
#New Biosensors Allows Scientists to Control Engineered Bacteria Super productive factories of the future could employ fleets of genetically engineered bacterial cells,
Critical to this process of metabolically engineering microbes is the use of biosensors. Made of a biological component-such as a fluorescent protein
biosensors act as the switches and levers that turn programmed functions on and off inside the engineered cells.
But so far, scientists have had only access to a limited variety of biosensors that have little relevance to the biomanufacturing of valuable chemicals.
"The Wyss team aims to leverage the new biosensors to aid in their efforts to develop renewable chemical production strategies using genetically engineered microbes.
the biosensors can be used to trigger individual cells to give off visible fluorescence in a rate directly proportional to how well they are able to produce a desired chemical commodity.
Using the new biosensors, the most efficient microbial workers are identified easily so that they can serve as the predecessors for colonies of engineered bacteria that evolve to become more efficient at producing renewable chemicals with each subsequent generation.
"Our team is developing several different ways to make even more custom biosensors, "said Church.""We're trying to control biological processes
When Bearings Inside Wind turbines Will Fail Engineers from the University of Sheffield have developed a novel technique to predict
when bearings inside wind turbines will fail which could make wind energy cheaper. The method, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A and developed by Mechanical engineering research student Wenqu Chen,
uses ultrasonic waves to measure the load transmitted through a ball bearing in a wind turbine. The stress on wind turbine is recorded
which are a common problem in wind turbines. By removing the risk of a loss of production and the need for unplanned maintenance,
it can help to reduce the cost of wind energy and make it much more economically competitive."
and their design was done traditionally by manufacturing but now, with 3d printing, computer manufacturing and more laser technology,
#Wearable technology Combines Inertial and Electromyographic Sensors for Detecting Gestures A smart device that translates sign language
The wearable technology combines motion sensors and the measurement of electrical activity generated by muscles to interpret hand gestures,
he says his team will look to incorporate all of these functions into one wearable device by combining the hardware and reducing the overall size of the required electronics.
It is being developed as part of Company-funded research which aims to reduce the burden on the dismounted soldier through wearable technology.
#Innovative Bioelectronic Nose Smells Traces of Bacteria in Water A bioelectronic nose that mimics the human nose can detect traces of bacteria in water by smelling it, without the need for complex equipment and testing.
According to a study published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics the technology works by using the smell receptors in the human nose.
The sensor is simple to use and it can detect tiny amounts of contamination in water,
the researchers will need to scale up their efforts. ur eventual goal is to develop a real human nose-like bioelectronic nose,
and a bioelectronic nose opens the path to diagnosis through smell. There also a role for security, for example in drug searches at airports.
With our bioelectronic device, we can systematically detect and label smells, perhaps coming up with a universal smell code we can use to communicate in the future r
The Solar Trade Association thinks solar power could provide the same amount of electricity for half the subsidy cost.
"The government needs to explain why it is drastically cutting support for solar energy whilst offering double the subsidy to Hinkley Point C."It also needs to explain why it is championing overseas state-backed utilities over British solar companies which given stable support would have considerable growth prospects."
Nuclear reactors cost a lot of money, and EDF wants to build two of them. The final bill for just Hinkley is estimated at £24. 5bn.
At the moment, almost 20%of the UK's power is generated by nuclear reactors but this is likely to fall in the short term as the UK's current nuclear capacity is decommissioned.
The government is committed to renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, but to get enough generating capacity from these sources will take too long,
#First 3d printed pill approved in US In a world first, the US Food and Drug Administration has given the go-ahead for a 3d printed pill to be produced.
The FDA has approved previously medical devices-including prosthetics-that have been 3d printed. The new drug, dubbed Spritam,
was developed by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals to control seizures brought on by epilepsy. The company said that it planned to develop other medications using its 3d platform.
The 3d printed pill dissolves in the same manner as other oral medicines. Being able to 3d print a tablet offers the potential to create bespoke drugs based on the specific needs of patients,
said Dr Alhnan. 3d printing works by creating an object layer by layer. In the case of medicines
And dentists, for example, use 3d printers to create replica jaws and teeth as well as other dental implants s
One of the features is a telepresence robot, which allows nurses, social workers or doctors to monitor patients remotely.
"If there is no response from the person then the carer could activate the telepresence robot
He claims that a technology called Freevolt can be the power source for the"internet of things,
"He says it"closed the loop"on the internet of things and the industry would embrace it
and picking treatments that exploit the weakness of the particular tumour.''Dr Nick Peel, from Cancer Research UK, said:'
One-and-a-half hours and youe done. igarette pack reactorsrao team has created 3d printed designs for their next goal:
Cigarette pack reactors Rao team has created 3d printed designs for their next goal: flat-chip bioreactors the size of cigarette packs for continuous processing.
which integrats the ultrafast laser with molecular biology and cell biology. Professor Lu has applied the tool to understand the molecular mechanisms that cause cancer at the very moment
which a meta-analysis of publicly available data sets allowed him and his associates to tease out a gene-activation pattern that distinguishes septic from sterile systemic inflammation. e thought there might be some genes that the body turns on specifically in response to infection,
The Stanford sleuths analyzed a number of publicly available data sets containing results of studies that had assessed activity levels for the entire human genome in sepsis cases,
600 patients in 27 different data sets containing medical information on diverse patient groups men and women, young and old,
First, the researchers scoured nine data sets containing more than 650 patient samples. They looked for genes whose activity uniformly and substantially increased or decreased, across all nine data sets
in patients within 24 hours of a sepsis diagnosis compared with genes from those not diagnosed with sepsis.
3d printed patches based upon the model will allow us to tailor prosthesis to patient. inally,
Working to a single, shared protocol, the consortium produced 20 data sets with enough results to be able to quantify the data yield, quality,
and Senior Analyst in Microbial Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human genetics. using the Minion in a project with secondary-school students in Oxford,
Cima says. excited about using these sensors to bring big data to environmental monitoring
#Modified Yeast Produce Opiates From Sugar, Stanford university Study It typically takes a year to produce hydrocodone from plants,
explains Christian Kastrup, an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology and the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British columbia.
The lenses were enclosed then in an all-plastic, 3d printed microscope housing and objective. Once constructed, the microscope provided a field of view of 1. 2 millimeters,
And as the internet of things grows, so does the number of threat actors bent on exploiting its ubiquity.
"What is a great cyber intelligence tool today is tomorrow's exploit,"Ray Boisvert, former Director General of the Counter Terrorism program for the Canadian security intelligence service (CSIS), told the highly technical Infiltrate hacking conference in April. thelavinagencyray Boisverthe highlighted Stuxnet,
"cybersecurity expert David Kennedy, founder of the security consulting firm Trustedsec, told Business Insider.""Iran was the first to capitalize on that."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has increased the government's cybersecurity spending 12-fold since taking office,
giving the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) an annual cybersecurity budget of roughly $19. 8 million.
cyber security expert and former Department of Homeland security policymaker Paul Rosenzweig told the Free Beacon. hina vision of combined operations,
known as"phishing,"can be executed by unskilled scammers. When executed by a professional, however, phishing becomes a highly targeted tool.
Last November, the US Department of Homeland security discovered that SCADA systems controlling various industrial processes (such as the power grid
And some cybersecurity experts fear that hackers aboard an aircraft could bring down the plane using the onboard Wi-fi many commercial jets now offer to passengers."
which plants use solar energy to reduce carbon dioxide to acetate, a ubiquitous biochemical uilding block. In the second step, acetate is converted to more complex chemical precursors.
The ICMS tax is said to average 20%to 30%of the value of renewable energy that homes
said Rodrigo Lopes Sauaia, executive director of the Brazilian Photovoltaic Solar energy Association. As for the possible threshold of 2 GW by 2024, figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance calculate that approximately 700
Solar power is already beginning to be a hope for the future in Brazil, with numerous solar power plants being initiated
and funded over the past few months. A 350 MW floating solar plant was announced earlier in April,
and provide a buffer for variable wind and solar power. For the consumer, energy storage enables a whole new way to look at home electricity use.
It can provide energy security, lower energy costs and eventually offer an opportunity to become part of the market for buying
#How Sunport Delivers Solar energy Without the Panels At of the end of 2014, the amount of electricity from solar power being generated in the US was only 0. 8%of the total energy mix in our electrical grid.
Last year, nearly 645,000 US homes and businesses were using power from the sun. That like saying every person in Nashville,
what you see in the chart above to about 3%of our grid energy mix coming from solar by 2040 (note that the chart above doesn account for rooftop solar power).
with the hope of boosting all renewable energy generation by 2030 by 30%.%Yet, even with these measures, nonrenewables will still dominate our energy mix
but today most people are locked simply out of participating in solar energy, says Paul Droege inventor of the Sunport. he expense of solar panels and required ownership of a roof limit solar growth.
serving as a portal to the solar energy on the grid. Sunport is the world first smart grid solar delivery device,
It does this by leveraging the same solar renewable energy certificates (SRECS) market that large corporations use to reduce their carbon footprints.
Solar panels are required still to make this solar energy, but you don need to own them. Sunport platform lets you access expensive solar infrastructure,
plugged into an enabled Sunport consumes solar energy without requiring any additional steps. Sunport simply measures the power from the wall
validated solar energy. In the late 1990s, the government created renewable energy credits (RECS) as a way to separate renewable from nonrenewable energy.
Serving as tradable environmental commodities, RECS represent proof that 1 megawatt-hour (MWH) of electricity was generated by an eligible renewable energy source.
A certifying agency gives each REC a unique identification number to make sure it doesn get double-counted.
but money goes to a solar power producer when you buy an SREC. Today SRECS are used primarily to help fund a portion of new solar projects.
and legitimately claim use of any grid-connected renewable energy. This process matches energy use against a solar energy supply (using SRECS) in strict accordance with
what the US Federal trade commission (FTC) requires to claim use of solar energy. Moreover, for each dollar Rechoice spends to acquire SRECS,
it spends a matching dollar to install new solar on other nonprofits, which get free electricity from those installations.
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