#Sweden+Project begins process of creating 3d printed houses from cellulose material Although some of the biggest stories in 3d printing over the past year have involved either very large-scale additive manufacturing projects such as those centered around creating entire houses or alternatively,
those focused on small nanoscale structures such as cell scaffolding for humans, wee rarely heard about the two coming together in one project.
a team of researchers and partners are developing a new technology that capable of producing full-scale 3d printed houses using cellulose material.
#Byxee, first smart safety device for bike is brought to life thanks to Kentstrapper Volta 3d printer Jun 29,
which is the result of multiple 3d printed iterations over many months, incorporates a video camera and a microprocessor.
the Byzee was brought to life thanks to the low cost of 3d printing. The design team behind the Byxee,
To produce the 3d printed models, the design team used a Kentstrapper Volta 3d printer-a well-known Italian brand that makes FDM 3d printers.
As for what next for the Byxee team, there is still nearly a month to go in their campaign and as of press time,
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#Paper-thin 3d printed solar cells to provide affordable electricity for unlit rural areas Jun 29, 2015 By Simonthanks to a recent surge of interest surrounding various alternative energy sources and technologies including Elon musk announcement of a Tesla home battery,
and more powerful than ever before-and many of them were created thanks to various additive manufacturing techniques.
Now, a new printed solar cell technology that only requires the use of existing industrial-size 3d printers
According to Scott Watkins, the director of the unit for overseas business at Korean firm Kyung-In Synthetic, these 3d printed solar cells have already been used in India. e witnessed firsthand how the technology has enabled urban poor communities in India
the use of additive manufacturing methods to produce the cells is surely one of the most efficient ways of doing so regardless of where they end up setting up shop.
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#A new ink formulation allows you to 3d print objects out of stretchy graphene A few months ago,
who have made a great breakthrough in the possibilities of 3d printing graphene structures. This material, as you might now,
could be called the holy grail of 3d manufacturing. Wee already learned that the team from Northwestern University have developed a solution-based 3d printable graphene ink that can be used to make objects multiple centimeters in length.
But through a publication the team led by Ramille Shah has unveiled just a lot more about the potential and limitations of their graphene ink,
which amazingly consists of 60 percent graphene (in terms of volume), making up 75 percent of its weight.
To explain, graphene is essentially a form of carbon, just like diamonds or the lead in pencils.
But unlike most forms of carbon, graphene is a 2d material that consists of a hexagonal sheet only a single atom thick.
This means it can be made into shapes of literally any size, but its properties are especially interesting.
And while some graphene successes have been achieved previously, this specific ink contains more graphene than any previously developed 3d printable materials (the previous record was around the 20 percent).
This means that the electrical and mechanical properties of graphene can soon be taken into use.
What's more, the rest of the ink consists of a biocompatible biodegradable polyester (PLG) that,
thus really onto something. eople have tried to print graphene before. But it been a mostly polymer composite with graphene making up less than 20 percent of the volume
Shah explains on her university website. This means these materials don copy graphene properties and remain to brittle and fragile to use.
And while you might think that a 60-70 percent graphene content isn the real deal either,
this does in fact copy all the properties you need, while the remaining materials ensure flexibility and robustness. t a liquid ink,
entitled hree-dimensional printing of high-content graphene scaffolds for electronic and biomedical applications. 3d printed graphene appeared on the cover.
As a test, her team populated a graphene scaffold with stem cells, with the results being excellent.
The secret to this graphene ink is that the graphene is embedded into microscopic flakes. This makes the ink highly viscous,
but extrusion realigns all the flakes to create a single filament with all the characteristics of graphene.
the elasticity of the material can be tuned by changing the portions of graphene and polymers.
but that increases when the amount of graphene is decreased (though eventually this means losing some graphene properties).
In short, while 3d printing itself is revolutionary, throwing graphene into that mix really changes the playing field t
#Researchers create revolutionary optical fiber 3d printing technique for telecom and datacom industries As we continue to see more developments being made towards advancing additive manufacturing technologies,
wee naturally also starting to see what those new developments are capable of producing. Among others, researchers at the University of Southampton have been exploring ways of using additive manufacturing to produce optical fibers.
Currently, the majority of existing fibers are made using a labor intensive tack and drawprocess that involves stacking small glass capillaries by hand to create a preform,
which is a piece of glass from which an optical fiber is drawn. Although this method produces consistent results
fabricate and employ novel Multiple Materials Additive manufacturing (MMAM) equipment to enable us to make optical fibre preforms (both in conventional
#This 3d printed ' dough' could fix up your fractured bones As it seems like the entire medical world is finally becoming aware of
what the latest 3d printing technologies can do for them, it is hardly surprising that we hear about exciting new (bioprinted) medical innovations almost every week.
This time, a team of scientists from the University of Nottingham show off an amazing 3d printing achievement.
The team has developed a new 3d bioprinting technique that allows them to 3d print a thick paste filled with protein-releasing microspheres that can be used to greatly speed up bone regeneration after fractures.
Entitled Cell and protein compatible 3d bioprinting of mechanically strong constructs for bone repair, it hands bioprinting scientists a whole new avenue to explore:
3d bioprinting is a hot topic in the field of tissue engineering. owever it usually requires a printing environment that isn't compatible with living cells
while 3d printing could be used to 3d print it in huge complex scaffolding structures. What more, the body temperature environment needed to manufacture this material means that production costs remain relatively low.
#MEDPRIN 3d prints world first biological meningioma Redura for use in brain surgery While 3d bioprinting innovations sound lifesaving and revolutionary, most are still years away from impacting ordinary
Called MEDPRIN, they have developed the world first 3d printed biological meningioma called Redura a replica of tissue covering the brain
this 3d printed biological Redura doesn suffer from these problems, but instead closely resembles the existing membrane and a patient autologous cells.
Yuan Yuyu, the chairman of MEDPRIN, explained how they developed this 3d printed material. They begin by taking meninges tissue out of patients themselves to analyze the fiber structure.
They will subsequently use 3d printing technology to create artificial meninges structures. Upon implantation the brain blood vessels crawl into the structures.
he said. he core membrane adopts the most advanced 3d printing based bio-regenerative medical platform,
the key difference between bio 3d printing and traditional printing is in the printhead used. here are two kinds of printhead used in bio 3d printing:
and artificial skin, blood vessels and ligament, many of which rely on the exact same 3d printing technique. In short, they are laying the technical foundations necessary for future development of more complex and advanced 3d printed artificial tissues and organs.
According to Xu Tao, the availability of 3d printed medical tissues could widely change over the coming years. issue repair is a complex human organ regeneration process,
and it has different requirements for different structures, he said. he plan is to develop more than 10 kinds of implantable medical devices products within the next 5 years.
and clinical resources to push 3d printing from biological tissue reconstruction all the way up to 3d printing of organ regeneration.
In short, the 3d bioprinting revolution is definitely on its way, and Chinese scientists can be found at its forefront. i
#Swedish researchers create a nanoscale 3d printed bunny using folded DNA Among some of the more exciting developments that wee been seeing in additive manufacturing involve the creation of structures that you can even see at all-in the form of nanoscale assemblies.
Whether its for medical use or for other scientific purposes, the ability to create custom objects using additive manufacturing methods at the nanoscale is allowing experts to manipulate objects at even the smallest levels.
it hasn been until recently where new methods have opened up different possibilities for fine-tuning the folding process through automation-an important step for the near future of nanoscale 3d printing. ee developed a new slim lined method to fold DNA
and head of the research group behind the new study. e use the same principles as 3d printing to design the DNA structure,
the researchers used manufactured DNA from viruses as a building material. e take the paradigm of 3d printing to construct a method to go from a mesh designed in the computer,
#3d printed smartphone device reads ELISA diagnostic tests accurately and within one minute In remote or developing countries,
smartphone-based device and app that is made with a 3d printer and can read ELISA plates on-the-spot,
with up to 99.6%accuracy for certain viruses. The new ELISA platform is made on a 3d printer. Image via UCLATO conduct a traditional ELISA test, doctors place antigen samples from the patient onto a surface,
but with a small and low-cost 3d printed device that attaches to a smartphone. Known as a olorimtreic microplate reader, the attachment illuminates a 96-well plate with an LED array.
Since 3d printing technology is acknowledged already for being affordable and easily transportable to low-resource areas,
#Surgeons turn to 3d printing to help perform world first pediatric bilateral hand transplant in USA Although wee previously heard about the many remarkable instances where 3d printing has helped improve the quality of life for an individual thanks to its increased usage and acceptance in the medical industry,
none of the scenarios involved a surgical procedure as complicated as a hand transplant. Yet, thanks to a team of surgeons in Philadelphia, an 8-year-old boy can now throw the football thanks to a recent hand transplant that was made possible thanks to the aide of 3d printing.
The 8-year-old Zion Harvey, sadly lost his hands and feet to an infection several years ago and has learned
Dr. L. Scott Levin and another member of Zion surgical team created sample hands on a 3d printer that were based on CT SCANS of Zion forearms.
These 3d printed hands were used then by Dr. Levin when checking on potential donors. This week, it was announced by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia that the surgery,
#Eastman, taulman 3d, Aleph Objects Partner for New n-vent 3d printing Filament Eastman Chemical Company has been making its Amphora plastic available to filament manufacturers to take advantage of the material
properties in order to produce unique 3d printing materials. Namely, colorfabb has created a BPA-free copolyester material, as well as their powerful carbon fiber filament, using the material.
tested and promoted by Aleph Objects, manufacturers of the Lulzbot Mini and TAZ 3d printers. Eastman boasts the toughness
and their technical and engineering expertise round out a set of features that is ideal for 3d printing material development.
but, more generally, represents the partnership of all three companies that seeks to see ever greater materials introduced to the 3d printing community.
printed on their newest generation of Lulzbot 3d printers, at RAPID 2015 in Long beach, CA. Jeff Moe,
ased on our in-house testing using Lulzbot 3d printers, we are confident that n-vent by taulman 3d,
and taulman have long been backed by many Makers in the 3d printing community, the partnership with Eastman now lends the Fortune 500 company credibility in the community, as well,
which to produce filaments for the 3d printing community. As Alex Dudal, market development representative for Eastman Chemical Company, says,
ollaborations like the one between taulman 3d and Aleph Objects are why Eastman is involved in the 3d printing market.
and taulman 3d have in the 3d printing market, it also speaks to the growing presence of large companies in the space.
and Microsoft look to dominate the software and hardware of 3d printing, Eastman, Mistubishi, and Natureworks are looking at the materials side of the industry.
#The Focus 3d printer Is multifaceted Portable , & Delicious? At the end of last year, Davide reported that a company called 3d By Flow was going to be releasing a 3d printer with all of the fixings for portability.
Later on, we got a sneak peek, through a story in The netherlands, that the printer would also be equipped to handle viscous materials, like food.
#Most Read Articles from Last Week May 24th Electroloom, 3d printing, & the Dawn of a New Age of Clothing We hope youe dressed for the occasion
because the much anticipated 3d printer for clothes is finally here! The Electroloom team has launched recently its Kickstarter campaign,
thus giving youhere a New DLP 3d printer in Town and it Is Ready to Do3d In the rapidly expanding ocean of 3d printers,
While Autodesk is leading thugged Sprite UAV Guided to Kickstarter Thanks to 3d printing At the end of last year,
a 3d printed drone for scouting hiking trails from above. After successfully completing their 3d printed prototype thharebot Voyager DLP 3d printer Officially For sale As they head to the reatest Show
and Tell on Earthin San francisco, Sharebot has made their first DLP 3d printer, the Sharebot Voyager, available for purchase.
Due to the precision and castabilitytereolabs Launches ZED 3d Camera for Long-range Depth Sensing Every day on 3dpi, we report on developments in 3d printing, scanning, reality computing, and more.
And, while we may see a number of similar devices released, what keeps me most excited is seeing thinkak Partnership Adds Vibrant Colors
and Finishes to 3d printing Marketplace Kabuku Inc4 Rinkak 3d printing marketplace is emerging as an elegant addition to the world of online 3d printing services,
bringing what seems to be a welcome take on 3d printing marketplaces. For D Printed Exoskeleton Hand Paves the Way to Transhumanist Future
While wee covered numerous stories about 3d printing used to get prostheses to those in need,
including exoskeletons, the field of 3d printed-based human augmentation for the abled community (and diightning Fast Romanian Delta 3d printer Goes Multifunction with CNC
& Laser It took some time, but, in the end, the first 3d printer entirely made in Romania by Symme3d looks like it has been worth the wait.
The ubiquitous and democratizing nature of 3d printing continues to obo Turtle Receives Species1st 3d printed Jaw Implant 3d printing has had its fair share of heartwarming stories
but among the most touching applications of the technology has to be in the field of animal rescue.
and Crystal clear 3d printing Filaments Having tried it personally, I can honestly say that Fillamentum makes some of the best quality filaments around, especially their wooden Timberfill series.
But just as 3d printing has made prosthetic or bionic limbs highly customisable, more functional and affordable, so have myoelectric and sensor technologies.
Lü Siyi and her team of researchers at Nankai University, in the northern city of Tianjin, China, have used 3d printing to develop a prototype bionic arm that feels.
#Holus Kicks Off Consumer Holographic Era with 3d printing and Gaming in Mind While I have always been somewhat skeptical about the consumer applications of augmented reality and virtual reality,
with particular focus on 3d printing or 3d character development and visualization for animation. The systems will also support professional and business uses
It can of course be viewed at 360°and supports 3d sensors such as Kinect, Leap Motion, the Emotive Brain Sensor and the Occipital Structure 3d scanner.
There 3d printing and complex 3d modeling involved. It about transforming traditional hands-on education. More than anything though, Necropsynth is about saving lab animals from tyranny in the name of education,
because 3d printing can. So what exactly is Necropsynth? It is devoted a tartup to production of 3-d designed and printed, macroscopically accurate, anatomical models for scientific and education purposes.
they will use 3d printers from Printrbot because of its affordability and emphatic commitment to education values that Necropsynth also shares. f Printrbot believes they can put a printer in every school in the US,
#New 3d printed Ceramic Thruster Could Give a Boost to Space travel After watching Space X explode 27 miles in the air over Cape canaveral as it went supersonic,
believe that their new 3d printed ceramic thruster could significantly affect the longevity and the efficiency of space travel.
but, this time, they have enhanced 3d printed catalyst bed thrusters that could launch us out of orbit.
and experiments using 3d printing technology to explore the potential for 3d space engineering and creating a new generation of rocket engines.
Through years of research into 3d printing practices, the research team has developed a new technique which can produce complex ceramic parts with a high surface area per unit mass and a resolution of 100 microns.
With the help of their unique additive manufacturing and coating method, they were able to create monolithic catalyst beds that hold up nicely through various rounds of testing,
This 3d printed catalyst bed and all of the additive manufactured parts that are making their way through trials will certainly impact the space industry by encouraging innovative design and material use
and in producing less overall waste in the manufacturing process. 3d printed products like the University of Birmingham catalyst bed,
#joimax Receives FDA Approval for 3d printed Spinal Implants 3d printing has begun already to disrupt the medical space,
And, as stories are reported daily as to the ability to create patient-tailored implants with 3d printing,
Due to its 3d printed nature, the implant can both be customized to the patient, by converting patient CT or MRI scans to 3d models,
the Endolif is part of a larger trend of implementing 3d printing in medical procedures. This trend, which also includes such companies as Materialise
The device connects to the smartphone via a 3d printed attachment and hits the ELISA plate with a variety of light-emitting diodes.
Danit Peleg final design project at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel was a 100%3d printed fashion line inspired by Eugene Delacroix 1830 painting iberty Leading the People
but, for now, she must continue charging ahead with her 3d printed Tricolor into the world of fashion design.
She spent 9 months researching and a total of 2, 000 hours 3d printing the textiles for her garments.
27 year old Peleg said wanted to challenge myself to print the entire collection using home 3d printers.
They introduced her to several home 3d printers that might work for her project, including a Makerbot, Witbox and Prusa.
and 3d printing technology moving forward in the fashion world. She says that she hopes that the technology ill help democratize fashion
a new technology that will enable scientists to work virtually on Mars using wearable technology called Microsoft Hololens.
NASA is considering the use of solar sails on future exploration mission secondary payloads and data from this mission will advance understanding of this form of propulsion.
which provides opportunities for small satellites to fly as auxiliary payloads on planned missions. It was assigned to a launch as part of as the 11th installment of the Educational Launch of Nanosatellite (ELANA) mission.
#4d printing: A Process of Transformation in Structures The research team can now turn 3d printed objects into dynamic structures,
but how it is possible without having any wires, motors, chips? Here is where the geometric code developed by tibbit has come to play.
In 3d printer an exact geometric code focused around the object own particular edges and measurements additionally estimations that direct how it ought to change shape
Don Miss Intel 3d printed Dress to Ward off Potential Attackers Tibbit feels that this new technique will reach millions of 3d printer users soon,
what if a terrorist hijack a plane using this 4d printing since objects can be changed into any shape.
Dr. Raviv, who leads the team prepared a paper that exposes about 4d printing. The geometric code not only enabling the change of 3d printed structure,
but also ensuring the predetermined shape. oday, researchers are printing biocompatible parts to be implanted in our body,
According to them 4d printing will make a huge impact on the applications from home appliances to medical implants.
In automotive industry 4d printing technology will be useful that can be used for outer layering that will adapt accordingly to different weather conditions.
In the medical field 4d printing objects could be crucial for making nanorobots for chemotherapy, tissue engineering an assembling biomaterials and many more.
Even in military 4d printing will play a huge role in self repairing the parts. 3d printing is the best technology that has been widespread all over the world with the 4d printing around the corner will boost the market for 3d printers further,
#Augmented reality Gaming Takes a New Turn with Lyteshot Lyteshot, a new kind of mobile gaming system will bring about a change in the way mobile games are played.
and are compatible with your mobile phone and by bringing in augmented reality. The device was unveiled at the CES this year.
so that it can then be 3d printed in the shape of a gun, staff, wand, bow,
Augmented reality in Action Playing outside in the real world can become even more interesting with augmented reality. The company has started developing the interface
This will allow the users to play in first person in the game using the smart glasses like Google glass, Epson Moverio, etc.
With the use of augmented reality on the HUDS, the storylines and characters of the games will come alive
Commercial enterprises and consumers can now use augmented reality applications with the Moverio BT-200 platform as it blends the digital and physical world seamlessly.
and connected electronics (smart homes and smart buildings, electronic shelf labels, wireless sensor networks). To reduce thickness
CAP-XX Thinline supercapacitors support power requirements in Iot devices including wireless communication (Bluetooth Bluetooth Smart, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Ant, active RFID), electronic paper and OLED displays, haptic or tactile feedback, vibration alerts, GPS acquisition,
We may be able to design materials that mimic nature's machinery to harvest solar energy, or manipulate light for telecommunications applications,
"Our study shows that this material has exceptional energy storage capacity, enabling unprecedented performance in lithium-sulfur batteries and supercapacitors."
"Our ability to exploit self-assembly processes allows us to enable and impact on applications where precision
hybrid and electric vehicles and energy storage units have increased the demand for permanent magnets. China, being the chief global supplier of rare earth elements,
#Graphene-Coated Catheters May Improve Delivery of Chemotherapy drugs The research suggests that placing graphene-an extremely thin sheet of carbon atoms-on the internal surfaces of intravenous catheters commonly used to deliver chemotherapy drugs into a patient's body will improve the efficacy of treatments,
"As a solution to this problem, the international team of researchers have proposed using graphene as an alternative coating material for catheters.
as well as the drug's reactions with silver and graphene. XPS is used a technique to measure the surface chemistry of a particular material by firing a beam of x-rays at it
When the researchers repeated this experiment with 5-Fu and graphene, they found that these reactions completely disappeared
and that graphene caused no damage to the drug. Graphene is a biocompatible material with low toxicity that has already been suggested as an external coating for biomedical applications.
The researchers state that the fabrication of thin graphene coatings is technological feasible and can even be grown on top of silver to maintain compliance with existing fabrication methods."
"Our findings are an important first step in this new field. Together with our collaborators and students, we are increasing our understanding of the critical interactions between drugs and medical coatings,
Theye widely expected to improve energy storage, sensors, nanoelectronics, catalysis and separations, but graphene aerogels are prohibitively expensive and difficult to produce for large-scale applications because of the complicated purification
So a team of researchers in China set out to design a cheaper material with properties similar to a graphene aerogeln terms of its conductivity, as well as a lightweight
"Mitra's distillation process runs on energy-efficient fuels such as waste heat, an industrial by-product, and solar energy.
-and nanomechanical biosensors for quite a while now and can say that no one has been able to introduce a simple and scalable technology for parallel monitoring that would be ready to use outside a laboratory.
#Graphene Used for World's Thinnest Light bulb This clip shows the emission of light from graphene,
The graphene vibrates during light emission due to the flexural mode of graphene at high temperature. The team, led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia Engineering,
attached small graphene strips to metal electrodes and suspended the strips over a substrate. When a current was passed through the filaments, they heated up."
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"said Hone, Wang Fon-Jen Professor of Mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering and co-author of the study.
The team showed that the graphene reached temperatured over 2500#C by measuring the spectrum of emitted light.
This temperature was sufficient for the graphene to glow brightly.""The visible light from atomically thin graphene is so intense that it is visible even to the naked eye,
without any additional magnification,"explained Young Duck Kim, first and co-lead author on the paper.
The team identified that the peaks were due to interference between the light that was emitted directly from the graphene,
and was passed back to the graphene. Kim stated,"This is only possible because graphene is transparent, unlike any conventional filament,
and allows us to tune the emission spectrum by changing the distance to the substrate.""Graphene's ability to reach such high temperatures without melting the metal electrodes
or the substrate is due an interesting characteristic: graphene's conductivity decreases as it heats up.
This means that the high temperatures are restricted to a small'hot spot'in the center.""At the highest temperatures, the electron temperature is much higher than that of acoustic vibrational modes of the graphene lattice,
so that less energy is needed to attain temperatures needed for visible light emission. These unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of temperature of the sun,
and improve efficiency 1000 times, as compared to graphene on a solid substrate, "explained Myung-Ho Bae,
a senior researcher at KRISS and co-lead author. By creating large-scale of arrays of chemical-vapor-deposited (CVD) graphene light emitters,
the team demonstrated that this new technique was scalable. Yun Daniel Park co-lead author and professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Seoul National University said,
but using it in its pure form-graphene -and at its ultimate size limit-one atom thick."
titled'Bright visible light emission from graphene',was published in the Advance Online Publication (AOP) on Nature Nanotechnology's website.
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