3D-Printing Piezoelectric Composite with Honeycomb Structure for Ultrasonic Devices

From Microscale Devices to 3D Printing

At the intersection of stem cell biology and tissue engineering resides enormous potential for patient-specific drug screening, disease modeling, and tissue equivalents that offer hope to treat some of the most devastating cardiovascular diseases. Tissue engineering comprises the optimization of 3 primary components: (1) the type or types of cells being implanted such as somatic cells, induced ...

3D Printing Presents New Opportunities for the Medical Devices Industry

The medical devices industry has been under a deluge of evolving regulations, leading to protracted lead times and high device development costs for new and enhanced medical devices. These costs assume worrying proportions for low volume product markets. 3D printing technology presents a promising option and involves leveraging additive manufacturing processes that use a layer-by-layer material...

Retailing with 3D Printing

Designing bioinspired composite reinforcement architectures via 3D magnetic printing

Discontinuous fibre composites represent a class of materials that are strong, lightweight and have remarkable fracture toughness. These advantages partially explain the abundance and variety of discontinuous fibre composites that have evolved in the natural world. Many natural structures out-perform the conventional synthetic counterparts due, in part, to the more elaborate reinforcement archi...

Multimaterial magnetically assisted 3D printing of composite materials

3D printing has become commonplace for the manufacturing of objects with unusual geometries. Recent developments that enabled printing of multiple materials indicate that the technology can potentially offer a much wider design space beyond unusual shaping. Here we show that a new dimension in this design space can be exploited through the control of the orientation of anisotropic particles use...