Thermosets, such as epoxy and silicon rubbers, are a class of polymer (i.e., plastic) materials that harden permanently when they undergo a specific chemical reaction, known as "crosslinking." These ...

E-OrthoShape is now available for the fast and affordable production of models on which thermoformed clear aligners can be created E-Ortholign also will be revealed for the direct 3D printing of a ...

What do airplanes, bridges, and wind turbines have in common? They can all be made from lightweight, strong, composite materials made of polymers reinforced with strong carbon fibers. Fiber-reinforced ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A team of biomedical engineers in Australia have developed a small flexible robot that can be used to 3D print biomaterials directly inside the human body, in the hopes of ...

What a day and age we live in when you can design and edit CAD models in a virtual- or mixed-reality environment and then readily 3D-print those models when finished. It was only a short few years ago ...

After gaining wide acceptance on the macro scale, additive manufacturing is increasingly being used at the nanometer scale, currently allowing for the fabrication of minuscule 3D objects with ...