Ceramics manufacturer and supplier CeramTec is seeing rising demand for piezoelectric (PZT) ceramic components to fulfill sophisticated underwater acoustic applications. The company manufactures custo…
Scientists make 3D printed wearables breakthrough with self-powered sensors
Scientists from the Korean Jeonbuk National University and Chinese material provider Wuhan Chamtop have 3D printed novel wearable self-powered sensors. Based on a unique barium-loaded PVDF polym…
Researchers develop flexible 3D printed armor inspired by mollusks
Research led by Ling Li, associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT), has developed 3D printed flexible scaled armor inspi…
3D Printing Industry Review of the Year August 2019
Research initiatives dominated the 3D printing sphere in August 2019. These projects ranged from altering the position of .stls in 3D printing to eliminating stair-stepping in FDM. Eliminating the n…
Virginia Tech’s Source Form method eliminates need for 3D printer .stls
A team of researchers from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) have developed Source Form, a 3D printer capable of creating objects using crowdsourced data. Display…
Virginia Tech engineers enable 3D printing of piezoelectric materials
Engineers from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VT) have found a way to 3D print piezoelectric materials, which convert mechanical energy into electric current. Xiaoyu ‘Rayne’ …