Conventional electronic components have some disadvantages: They add weight and have the tendency to break. While this is not a huge problem on earth, the need to bring replacement parts can add significant costs to a space mission. Dr. Lynn Rothschild from NASA is now working on a solution that uses microbes as bioink and a printer to recycle spent electronics.
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A research team from Cambridge University and the University of California San Diego has found a way to more effectively utilize the symbiosis of coral structures and microalgae, creating new light-harvesting approaches to cultivate algae. These developments could easily help preserving the ecosystem coral reef in the future.
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Print is not just print. The technology has gone far beyond its original usage and has spread its feelers into other industries such as medicine, pharma, architecture, or nutrition. What is possible today, and what are the opportunities for tomorrow? These are the kinds of questions that dna – drupa next age 2020 will both approach and showcase at the upcoming drupa.
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Over the past year, we’ve seen a rapid progress in 3D printing, especially in the medical sphere where bioprinting is
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With the latest developments from University of Wollongong’s researchers we might soon be able to 3D-print living human tissue and maybe even entire organs.
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Scientists of the University of Oxford have developed a way to print cells contained in a special liquid that helps the cells stay in shape when forming living tissue. This was not possible until now.
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Printing human tissue and organs! Printing what? What sounds like a science-fiction idea isn’t anything like that. A Nasdaq-listed company
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This week’s future links deal with medical printing and packaging. Read all about 3D printing in the medical field in general, a 3D-printed skulls, sheep’s wool for packaging, 3D-printed noses and the outlook on market of sterile medical packaging.
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This week we could not talk about green printing methods without mentioning the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid’s biocompatible material made from apple waste, self-sufficient 3D-printed homes by PassivDom, the Center for Engineering Complex Tissues, HP’s Latex Inks and SAXOPRINT’s sustainable collective printing approach.
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Here are our daily links with the most important news from the printing industry. Today they feature 3D printing and the future of fashion, growth expectations for the functional printing market, Sensient’s versatile digital inks for textiles, McDonalds using 3D printed characters in new ad, Graphene 3D’s research success with mysterious partner, QuadTech’s plans for drupa 2016 and new on the drupa blog: NASA scientists take bioprinting to new heights.
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