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MOSS robot's 3D-printed origami wheels cut cost of transport by 29%
MOSS, a Cornell/Imperial College amphibious robot, morphs 3D-printed origami wheels in 1.95 seconds, cutting cost of transport by up to 29% in wet terrain.
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IMDEA and UPM 3D print braided nitinol stents in a single step, hit 50% compression with 90% recovery
IMDEA Materials and UPM printed braided nitinol structures in one step that compress to 50% of diameter with over 90% elastic recovery, for transcatheter devices.
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Six-patient study: 3D printed lung models guide embolization of all 8 arteriovenous malformations
A UPMC-led team printed patient-specific models for 6 PAVM patients across two HHT centers, and embolization reached technical success in all 8 treated lesions.
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Simulation study proposes microwave volumetric printing for ceramic and metal powders, needs 100 kW input
A finite element study from Brendan Mackey, Levi Smith and Bosco Yu models three microwave device designs that could extend volumetric additive manufacturing past photopolymer resins to ceramic, metal and composite powders.
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Technion's MTRL 3D prints 178 earth bricks for olive tree pavilion
MTRL at Technion and the Weizmann Tree Lab built BUSTAN, a pavilion of 178 robotically printed earthen bricks around a living olive tree, for Design Museum Holon.
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CECIMO's AM Europe maps additive manufacturing research across 83 organizations
AM Europe, run by CECIMO, surveyed 83 research organizations in 18 countries and found 66 working on metal AM and advanced materials, but flagged uneven access for smaller firms.
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3D-printed cement supercapacitor hits 23 MPa while storing charge
Harbin Institute of Technology and Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers 3D-printed a cement supercapacitor with interlocking electrodes, reaching 162.14 mF/cm² and surviving 23 MPa compression.
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Virginia Tech prints liquid metal silicone with 40x thermal conductivity
Virginia Tech's Soft Materials and Structures Lab measured 9.9 W/mK thermal conductivity along printed gallium-indium droplets in silicone, about 40 times unfilled PDMS.
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MIT and Johns Hopkins build 3D printed device to collect living cells from tissue
MIT and Johns Hopkins researchers built a handheld 3D printed microfluidic device that sheared living cells off human fallopian-tube tissue, then grew them into organoids.
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WSU team prints GRCop-42 copper alloy at 500 watts using AI-guided settings
Washington State University used a machine learning model trained on 37 failed prints to find six working parameter sets for GRCop-42, printing it for the first time at 500 watts of laser power.
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LLNL camera system measures DIW strand diameter to within a few micrometers, while printing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory trained a segmentation model on 13,800 annotated images and matched human filament measurements across 55 test parts, catching a tilted build platform that averaging would have hidden.
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LLNL bioreactor converts methane to succinate 10 times faster than liquid systems
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory built a 3D-printed lattice bioreactor that turns waste methane into succinate at more than 10 times the rate of liquid-state systems, using less power.