Academia, Research & Development

Graphmatech & Uppsala University carry out research into copper material for additive manufacturing

Uppsala University researchers and Swedish graphene materials company Graphmatech believe they have managed to increase the density and lower the reflectivity of printed parts made with copper powder.

By TCT Team

/ 10 Feb 2021

Graphmatech Graphene coated copper during testing.

Xerox ElemX Liquid Metal Printer to be used by Naval Postgraduate School in US military research efforts

Xerox’s ElemX Liquid Metal Printer is to be deployed at the Naval Postgraduate School in research efforts designed to transform military supply to forward-deployed forces.

By TCT Team

/ 3 Feb 2021

Xerox liquid metal printer - Xerox/ YouTube

ExOne & ORNL strike commercial licence agreement for aluminium-infiltrated boron carbide 3D printing method

ExOne has announced a commercial licence agreement with the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to 3D print parts in aluminium-infiltrated boron carbide (B4C).

By TCT Team

/ 27 Jan 2021

Aluminium Materials Technologies & University of Birmingham to look deeper into A20X aluminium alloy for AM

Aluminium Materials Technologies is working in collaboration with the University of Birmingham to deepen the understanding of its A20X aluminium alloy for additive manufacturing.

By TCT Team

/ 12 Jan 2021

Aluminium Materials Technologies & University of Birmingham to look deeper into A20X aluminium alloy for AM

Rights reserved: A new digital watermarking method for 3D printing models

Senior Content Producer Sam Davies talks to the professor behind the 3D printing industry's latest IP protection patent.

By Sam Davies

/ 23 Dec 2020

Rights reserved: A new digital watermarking method for 3D printing models

GE Additive strikes public-private 3D printing partnership with Indiana Economic Development Corporation

GE Additive has agreed to co-invest in additive manufacturing R&D efforts along with Indiana Economic Development Corporation.

By TCT Team

/ 28 Oct 2020

Promoting the sustainability benefits of additive manufacturing through research

Additive manufacturing's first sustainability focused trade association (AMGTA) on their plans to enhance AM’s environmental impact.

By TCT Team

/ 20 Oct 2020

Teamwork makes the 3D Printing dream work

TCT Expert Advisory Board member, RMIT University Additive Manufacturing (AM) Fellow and Managing Director of Additive Economics Alex Kingsbury on building an AM innovation centre.

By TCT Team

/ 25 Sep 2020

Additive manufacturing research within the High Value Manufacturing Catapult

The AMRC’s James Hunt on leveraging the UK’s AM research facilities to allow companies to de-risk their journey towards AM adoption.

By TCT Team

/ 23 Sep 2020

Federal Aviation Administration grants Auburn University $3m for aerospace additive manufacturing research

The National Center for Additive Manufacturing Excellence (NCAME) at Auburn University is to initiate a two-year aerospace additive manufacturing project with backing from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

By TCT Team

/ 24 Aug 2020

FAA Auburn Uni Auburn Engineering faculty: Nima Shamsaei (left) and Steve Taylor (right).

Linde and 3D Medlab announce additively manufactured medical device research effort

Linde and 3D Medlab have announced a research partnership that will explore how atmospheric conditions in the additive manufacturing process can be optimised to produce complex latticed structures in medical devices.

By TCT Team

/ 28 Jul 2020

Spaceship EAC team explores lunar construction by 3D printing simulated Moon dust

Using ""low-tech" approach to a high-tech situation,'' student Billy Grundström is working with Spaceship EAC's advanced manufacturing team to 3D print parts from simulated Moon dust.

By TCT Team

/ 15 Jul 2020

Hollow cylinder 3D printed using the lunar regolith simulant EAC-1A. (Image Credit: ESA-B.Grundström)