Additive manufacturing, commonly referred to as 3D printing, is a technology that builds three-dimensional structures and components layer by layer. Bioprinting is the use of 3D printing technology to fabricate tissue constructs for regenerative medicine from cell-laden bio-inks. 3D printing and bioprinting have huge potential in revolutionizing the field of tissue engineering and regenerative ...

Dong Min Kim (Dane) Writing 340 Illumin Article June-12-2013 Abstract Building a house using 3-D printing technology is available to people in near future. Contour crafting is the method that can build a house quickly, safely, and economically. Since the robots and computers are the main part of the construction, human labor restriction that causes expensive and inefficient construction will be...

Many assistive technologies, although designed to enhance quality of life, become a headache for users. Price, fit, and comfort level are chief assailants in the total acceptance of certain assistive technologies – for many AT users, “one size fits all” doesn’t. By utilizing software developed to integrate Microsoft Kinect, openSCAD, and MakerBot 3D printers, we strove to develop a system inten...

Nanobiomaterials play an important role in nanobiotechnology and have made a great contribution to biomedical research and healthcare. Recent progress in nanobiomaterials has increased demand for multidisciplinary approaches from physical, biological and engineering sciences. Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) technologies are based on layer-by-layer deposition of materials which bring about new ...

On the basis of the absoluteness of the vacuum light velocity and of the Lorentz transformations, the concept of a “measurable spatial velocity along the time axis” of a given observer can be introduced in a natural way, on the same footing of the “usual” velocities in the observer’s local three-space; full equivalence is thus established among all the coordinate directions, in the spirit of Re...

Interest in 3D printing has greatly increased since 2013. With 3D printing high part complexity at no additional costs can be achieved, beside of efficiently using the raw material. This article reviews recent developments in 3D printing, with respect to the use of wood. Three examples are given on how wood could come to 3D printing: development of bio-based filaments, printing wood-like 3D obj...

Despite recent advances to control the spatial composition and dynamic functionalities of bacteria embedded in materials, bacterial localization into complex three-dimensional (3D) geometries remains a major challenge. We demonstrate a 3D printing approach to create bacteria-derived functional materials by combining the natural diverse metabolism of bacteria with the shape design freedom of add...