Manufacturing & Prototyping

3 D Printing & Additive Manufacturing

Explore the fast-paced developments in 3D printing and additive manufacturing. Access the essential technical briefs and resources for design engineers working in manufacturing and medical industries.

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Facility Focus: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See the advanced materials, complex systems, and bioengineering technologies being created at Cornell.
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Special Reports: Electronics & Computers
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - April 2021
How 3D printing is transforming the medical industry...adapting to the manufacturing challenges of COVID-19...improving quality and reliability in PCB production. These are just a few of the...

Podcasts: Manufacturing & Prototyping
In this episode of our Here's an Idea podcast, we speak to engineers who are building a variety of wearables. And some sensors blend in more than others.
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Articles: Materials
Perseverance is the first leg of a round trip to Mars.
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Q&A: Energy
Professor Shirley Meng explains why there's a demand for stretchable batteries.
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Briefs: Software
The functioning human heart pump provides a model to track and trace what happens at the cell and molecular levels in the pump structure.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The invention can become color-changing “artificial muscle.”
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This method obtains high-color-purity 3D objects using a new class of nanoparticles.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The technique could have applications in diagnosing and monitoring the lungs of patients with COVID-19.
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Application Briefs: Software
“The disruption promised by Industry 4.0 has already begun,” says Jason Melcher from the aerospace manufacturing company Ingersoll.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
As 5G arrives, devices will need to expand I/O counts at the controller, as well as overall networking capabilities.
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Application Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
See why Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc. is excited for the potential of additive manufacturing.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
By emulating the natural cellular architecture of wood, green products such as clothes, packaging, and furniture can be manufactured with unique properties.
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Briefs: Energy
A newly developed architected metamaterial has the ability to change shape in a tunable fashion.
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Briefs: Software
Additive Manufacturing Automated Process Planning Software
The software automatically maps designs from CAD software to additive manufacturing to help cut unnecessary steps.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
This integrated nanosensor is printed on a daughter board using 3D printing techniques.
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Briefs: Materials
The technology welds adjacent 3D-printed layers more effectively, thereby increasing the reliability of the final part.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The polyimide composites have uses in aerospace, automotive, construction, electronics, mechanical systems, and industrial machinery.
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Briefs: Materials
A new method manufactures complex shapeshifters for soft robots and biomedical implants.
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Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Next-generation solar panels, 3D-printed composites from NASA, and a new way to sterilize medical devices.
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Q&A: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Brian Salazar and his UC Berkeley team have developed a new way to reinforce concrete with a polymer lattice, an advance that could rival other polymer-based enhancements and improve...
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Applications include aerospace, automotive, commercial spaceflight, scuba diving equipment, and for first responders.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The system is filled with a patient’s skin cells.
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INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Researchers at the University of Nottingham have cracked the conundrum of how to use inks to 3D-print novel electronic devices with useful properties, such as an ability...
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
We explore the major scientific breakthroughs achieved during 20 years of human presence on the ISS.
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Products: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Mixed-signal oscilloscopes, 3D printers, DC/DC converters, and more.
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Q&A: Manufacturing & Prototyping
See how Dr. Andrei Kolmakov and his team are using low-energy electron beams to 3D-print tiny gel structures in liquids.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
Jacobs' scientists are helping to make contract-tracing apps, emergency-use ventilators, and even squid-bots.
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Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The magnetic, multi-material pump was 3D-printed all in one piece.
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