Academia, Research & Development

AMGTA first commissioned research paper finds AM-designed bracket 'more sustainable' than traditionally manufactured counterpart

The Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association (AMGTA) has published its first independent piece of research, titled “Comparative LCA of a Low-Pressure Turbine (LPT) Bracket by Two Manufacturing Methods.”

By TCT Team

/ 11 Apr 2023

A comparison of the AM-designed bracket (left) and the traditional version (right).

3D printing with sound waves made possible by medical researchers

Scientists from the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and the Institute for Molecular Systems Engineering and Advanced Materials at Heidelberg University have created a new way of 3D printing.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 2 Mar 2023

The use of sound waves to create a pressure field to print particles. - Kai Melde, MPI for Medical Research, Heidelberg University

MIT 3D prints custom robotic heart replicas

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients’ specific heart form and function with a custom robotic heart. Size and shape of a heart can vary from one person to the next.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 2 Mar 2023

UNSW Sydney develops robot for in-situ 3D bioprinting

Engineers from The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm which could be used to 3D print biomaterial directly onto organs inside a person’s body.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 2 Mar 2023

The tiny flexible 3D bioprinter developed at UNSW Sydney was able to 3D print a variety of materials with different shapes on the surface of a pig’s kidney. - UNSW Sydney

New 3D printed superalloy that could cut carbon emissions from power plants developed by researchers

Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have shown that a new 3D printed superalloy could help power plants generate more electricity while producing less carbon.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 23 Feb 2023

Sandia National Laboratories technologist Levi Van Bastian works to print material on the Laser Engineered Net Shaping machine, which allows scientists to 3D print new superalloys - Sandia...

Machine learning for correcting and preventing additive manufacturing errors

Douglas Brion & Sebastian Pattinson of the University of Cambridge's Department for Engineering on developing intelligent 3D printers that quickly detect and correct errors.

By TCT Team

/ 14 Feb 2023

Machine learning for correcting and preventing additive manufacturing errors

"It's my responsibility to not just share the successes." - Assessing the culture of 3D printing academia

Candice Majewski, a Mechanical Engineering Lecturer at University of Sheffield, and Erin Walsh, a University of Glasgow medical student who also has a PhD in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, discuss the cultural landscape of 3D printing academia.

By TCT Team

/ 14 Feb 2023

University of North Dakota receives funding for 3D printed nuclear reactor component research

Sougata Roy, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota (UND), has received federal funding to research new manufacturing methods for components used in nuclear reactors.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 8 Feb 2023

Sougata Roy, assistant professor of mechanical engineering (center), with his research group. To Roy’s right are Ph.D. research assistants. To the his left are other graduate research assi...

New multimaterial, rotational 3D printing process developed by researchers at Harvard

A new rotational, multimaterial 3D printing process has been developed by a team of researchers across different insitutes at Harvard University. The team was looking to mimic the helical structures that constitute biological systems.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 23 Jan 2023

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

University of Nottingham researchers to develop 3D printing toolkit for healthcare applications with £6m grant

University of Nottingham researchers have received a 6 million GBP grant from ESPRC to develop a 3D printing toolkit that will support the adoption of the technology in the UK healthcare sector.

By Sam Davies

/ 11 Jan 2023

3D printed pills. - University of Nottingham

MIT engineers develop heat treatment for 3D printed metals that transforms the material’s microscopic structure

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a heat treatment that can ‘transform’ the microscopic structure of 3D printed metals, making the materials stronger and more resilient in extreme thermal environments.

By Oliver Johnson

/ 6 Dec 2022

Rod of 3D printed superalloy going through the new heat treatment at MIT. - Dominic David Peachey

Rapidia: Accelerating office-friendly metal 3D printing innovation

Learn how the University of British Columbia uses Rapidia‘s office-friendly 3D printer and furnace to advance research & industrial applications.

By TCT Team

/ 8 Nov 2022