Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and Morphing Matter Lab have developed a method for adding new dimensions to one of the oldest materials on Earth – paper. Using a FDM 3D printer, the researchers have turned cheap sheets of copy paper into reversible actuators that bend, fold or flatten when […]
Electron beam on ice emerges as new nano 3D printing technique
While manufacturers have little problem creating large scale metal 3D printed parts, producing metallic objects at a scale to rival the width of a human hair is an altogether more complex process. By combining ice and electron beam technology, researchers at Zhejiang University, China, are proposing a new method of 3D nanofabrication – and it’s simpler […]