Engineers 3D Printed Permanent Zirconia Dental Crowns by Cutting a 100 Hours Process to 30 Minutes
Researchers have found a way to slash the processing time for 3D-printed zirconia crowns from as much as 100 hours to under 30 minutes. The advance could eventually let dentists print strong, customized permanent crowns for patients within a single appointment. University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a method to process enable same-day …
USC Team Prints Stretchable MRI Coils in Under 10 Minutes
Photography of the Printed MRI Coil Lab (Credit: USC, Photo/Sean Dube) A USC team 3D-printed conductive silver ink onto a thermoplastic elastomer to make patient-specific MRI coils in less than 10 minutes for about $30. In testing, the coils produced roughly four times greater image contrast than standard commercial versions. MRI coils pick up the …
3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines
Overcoming challenges of 3D printing with multiple functional materials, MIT researchers fabricated an electric linear motor in hours. A broken motor in an automated machine can bring production on a busy factory floor to a halt. If engineers can’t find a replacement part, they may have to order one from a distributor hundreds of miles …
Autodesk for Small Business update: Making it more affordable to get started with Autodesk Flex
Autodesk launched Autodesk for Small Business for the small teams, independent professionals, and entrepreneurs who depend on our technology every day. It was just the beginning, and the start of work to make Autodesk more accessible for the small businesses doing an increasingly large share of Design and Make work. Today, Autodesk is taking another step to address flexibility …
LLNL Team Prints Ceramic Waveguide Lasers By Direct Ink Writing
Credit: LLNL A Livermore team 3D-printed an all-ceramic waveguide by extruding ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet filaments within an undoped garnet matrix and then drying, sintering, and hot isostatically pressing it into a transparent ceramic. Glass fiber lasers used in high-power defense systems typically rely on silica waveguides. A crystalline ceramic can tolerate higher power, dissipate …
NSAM 2.0: India’s Next Leap in Additive Manufacturing
MeitY initiative could accelerate the transition of 3D printing from prototyping to real-world production The Additive Manufacturing (AM) Industry Meet held on 18 August 2026 marks an important step towards strengthening India’s Additive Manufacturing ecosystem. With MeitY’s focus on the National Strategy for Additive Manufacturing (NSAM) 2.0, the industry now has an opportunity to move …
iAM3D Unveils LPW Z2500, a Large-Format Multi-Axis Laser DED Platform for High-Performance Metal Manufacturing
Sriperumbudur, India: iAM3D has announced the launch of the LPW Z2500, a large-format, multi-axis laser Directed Energy Deposition (DED) Additive Manufacturing system aimed at accelerating advanced metal manufacturing across space technology, aerospace, defence, oil & gas, heavy engineering and research. The new platform brings powder-fed and wire-fed laser DED capabilities into a single machine, giving …
Stratasys and Limbitless Solutions Expand Ongoing Partnership Providing Access to 3D-Printed Prosthetics for Children
Stratasys, a global leader in additive manufacturing solutions, and Limbitless Solutions, a nonprofit research facility at the University of Central Florida dedicated to empowering children through bionics, today announced the expansion of a 12-year collaboration that has already helped deliver hundreds of 3D-printed prosthetic devices to children across the United States and beyond. Annika using …
Heidelberg Team Designs Recyclable Polymer for Light-Based 3D Printing
Schematic representation of the metastable material (left): the molecular chain is held together by a single lock (orange). As soon as the right chemical key opens this lock, the entire chain breaks down into its constituent parts within seconds (images on the right). (Credit: The Blasco group) A Heidelberg University team has designed a …
European Researchers 3D Print Glass-like Metallic Components for More Efficient Electric Motors
Professor Ralf Busch (left) and his team want to use metallic glasses to make electric motors more energy efficient. (Credit: Pasquale D’Angiolillo/UdS) Researchers at Saarland University are developing new metallic glass alloys that could reduce energy losses in electric motors used in devices like drones and e-bikes. The team, led by Professor Ralf Busch, …