FDA Approves PEEK Implant
It’s a good week for printed cervical spinal implants it seems, because this is our second story this week about the US Food... read more »
3D Printing Materials
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3D Printed Titanium Cervical Implant Gets FDA Clearance
FloSpine, a spinal implant medical device company based in the Research Park at Florida Atlantic University, has received 510(k) clearance from the Food... read more »
Aussie Company Recycling PPE into 3D Printer Filament
A new technology being developed in Sydney aims to tackle the problem of waste resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic by recycling used Personal... read more »
ASTM Publishes Two New Additive Manufacturing Standards for Metals and Aerospace
ASTM International, has recently published two new standards for additive manufacturing (AM) in collaboration with its AM committee (F42). The first standard (F3571)... read more »
Researchers Create New Superalloy for Turbomachinery
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have created a 3D printed superalloy that could help power plants generate more electricity while reducing carbon emissions.... read more »
International Consortium to Promote Use of 3D Printed Metals in Construction
The Politecnico di Milano is leading a "ConstructAdd", an international consortium of partners in developing metal 3D printing techniques to improve energy efficiency... read more »
AM Vocal Cord Research Leads to Development of Novel Functional Silicone
Researchers at Brigham Young University have published a paper detailing the development of an ultrasoft silicone with a functional stiffness gradient, and they... read more »
ORNL Researches Ash Content in Biocomposites
Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory have published a paper highlighting the effects of ash content in bioplastics, and have reached the conclusion... read more »
Johns Hopkins Team Prints Ultra-high Temperature Carbide Ceramics
Using commercially available systems, a group of researchers from The Johns Hopkins University have managed to fabricate Ultra-high-temperature ceramics (UHTCs). The materials have... read more »
UMaine Prints Bio-based Wood Fiber House
The University of Maine, known for printing large boats with their mammoth polymer extrusion printer, has revealed a house printed entirely out of... read more »
Researchers Print Porous Polymers with Salt
Reliance of fossil fuel based plastics is of growing concern for a number of reasons, not least because oil reserves are finite, and... read more »
Durian Skin Biocomposites
Last week we took a look at some promising research that utilized processed pineapple leaf fibers for the production of biocomposites. Bioplastics and... read more »
Pineapple Leaf Fibers Show Promise in Bioplastic Production
Researchers from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Newcastle University in Singapore have been experimenting with the addition of pineapple leaf fibers to PLA, to... read more »
Architect Prints Eco-Friendly Chicken Coops with Loam
A Hungarian architect by the name of Krisztian Gora has been experimenting with ecologically friendly materials, and has turned his skills to building... read more »
Research Shows Promising for Thermally Conductive Filaments
You may recall a while back that we did a series of articles on various thermally conductive and electrically conductive polymers suitable for... read more »
Thermally Conductive Polymer Materials for 3D Printing
Over the last few weeks we have been taking a look at various polymers with added engineering functionality. So far we have looked... read more »
Electrically Conductive Polymer Composites for 3D Printing
Last week we took a look at ESD safe materials for 3D printing. These are materials that are safe against electrostatic discharge, and... read more »
ESD Safe Materials for 3D Printing
The mechanical properties of 3D printed thermoplastic materials have been fairly well explored at this point. Sure there is always room for improvement…... read more »
Researchers Develop Electrically Conductive PEEK Filaments
A joint research project has just revealed the capabilities of electrically conductive PEEK 3D printer filament. The researchers produced the material by adding... read more »
World’s First Commercial Conductive Graphene Filament for 3D Printing
Conductive graphene filament Graphene 3D Lab, American developer and manufacturer of graphene-enhanced materials for 3D printing, launched the commercial sale of the world’s... read more »