A new rotational multimaterial 3D printing method enables materials to bend, twist, expand or contract on demand.

Taking a cue from the structural complexity of trees and bones, engineers have created a way to 3D-print two types of steel in the same circular layer using two welding machines. The resulting ...

Researchers at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed a new, high-precision method for 3D-printing small, soft objects. The process, which takes less than 30 seconds from start to finish, has ...

Researchers have been trying to find new ways to produce and replicate the various useful features observed in nature. Fine hairs and fibers, which are ubiquitous in nature, are useful for various ...

Using an affordable 3D printer and the CRAFT method, researchers created a model human hand from a single feedstock with distinct domains that mimic the hardness or flexibility of skin, ligaments, ...

A staff member at London's Royal Academy studies the Jackson Pollock painting "Blue Poles" in advance of a 2016 abstract-expressionism exhibit. Can a machine paint like Jackson Pollock? A team out of ...

Princeton engineers have developed an easily scalable 3D printing technique to manufacture soft plastics with programmed stretchiness and flexibility that are also recyclable and inexpensive—qualities ...

A research team led by chemist Dmitry Momotenko of the University of Oldenburg, Germany, has developed a new 3D printing technique for manufacturing ultrasmall metallic objects. Using this, the ...

A team of researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in South Korea has developed a novel dry transfer printing method for flexible electronic devices. This breakthrough enables the transfer ...