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- Fascinating 3D printing filaments3D printing is the future of manufacturing, whether it’s in construction or for products. This production method deposits only the amount of material needed…
- Harnessing Fungal Filament Structures to Create Stronger, Sustainable MaterialsEngineers at Binghamton University (SUNY) have discovered a way to make biodegradable materials stronger—by studying mushrooms. Their research shows that the internal structure of…
- ExtrudeX: A Desktop Recycler Turning 3D-Print Waste into New FilamentAs 3D printing becomes increasingly integrated into professional design practice—from architectural modelmaking to experimental fashion and product development—the issue of material waste continues to…
- 3D printing with glass filament at homeIn the past years, 3D printers have become affordable enough that people can have them at home. The development of filaments has gone just…
- Recycled Plastic Packaging Waste Developed into 3D Printing FilamentResearchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM and Hochschule Bremen – City University of Applied Sciences have developed a…
- Elytra Filament Pavilion Features New Robot-Fabricated Building MaterialThis week, the robot-fabricated Elytra Filament Pavilion opened at the Victoria & Albert museum in London. It's unusual structure is made from a super…
- Lemon Peel Waste Turned Into Bio-Based Textile FilamentsResearchers have developed a circular method that transforms lemon peel waste from juice production into biobased textile filaments. The study shows how food industry…
- A 3D print filament made out of wood components onlyResearchers from Rice University in the US developed a 3D print filament made up of only wood’s natural components, allowing to print ‘truly’ wooden…
- How 3D printing can aid the military3D printing can be used to make anything from small objects to whole houses. Today, we show two projects in which this manufacturing technique…
- Eco-friendly printing with beer, coffee and hempThis month, 3d printing filament company 3Dom USA in collaboration with biocomposite company c2Renew presented their latest product 'Entwined', a biobased, sustainable 3d printing…
- ReFil: The Sustainable 3D Printing Material from Better Future FactoryA large number of currently available 3D printers make use of a plastic-based ink called ‘filament’. Makers use these filaments to 3D print products…
- SustainaPrint: A Greener Approach to Stronger 3D PrintingResearchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute, have developed SustainaPrint, a toolkit that makes…
- A 3D printed kinetic installation made of recycled plasticDesign studio Atelier DARN created a kinetic installation made of 3D printed pieces made of recycled plastic. For the 2024 edition of Festival des…
- 3D printed textile-based lampsWith her project Conductive Origami, Jerusalem-based industrial designer Yael Akirav designed a series of lamp shades inspired by origami, by 3D printing conductive filament…
- 3D printed lamps made from recycled fishnetsA subdivision of Signify, Philips MyCreation are small regional 3D printing hubs that 3D print lamps from filament made of recycled fishing nets. Fishing…
- 3D printing with waste mussel shellsPhD candidate Marita Sauerwein at Delft University of Technology developed a way to create a 3D printing filament made from a major waste stream…
- Fibre composite pavilion is inspired by natureEngineers at the University of Stuttgart developed the BUGA Fibre Pavilion, which combines cutting-edge computational technologies with constructional principles found in nature, and is…
- Today’s materials for tomorrow’s products!3D printed composite material, film that filters light from screens… During MaterialDistrict Rotterdam 2019 (12-14 March in Rotterdam Ahoy, the Netherlands) the industrial designer…
- Sustainable PEF 3D printing material is made with cellulose3D printing is becoming increasingly popular, as it is a relatively fast method to produce objects with little waste material. The most commonly used…
- Human/machine collaboration to 3D print glassGlass is one of the oldest artificially made materials and still widely used. Like many other materials, it is possible to 3D print the…
- An Incandescent Lightbulb Comeback?A team of researchers at MIT have reinvented the traditional incandescent lightbulb by incorporating a special crystal structure filter around the filament of the…
- Moya Power: A New Way of Generating Light from WindMoya Power is a semi-transparent material innovation that harvests small amounts of wind to create energy. Low-cost and highly flexible, it can be applied…
- Nailed: Transforming Beauty Industry Waste into New Design MaterialNailed is a material innovation project by designer and researcher Genevieve Carr (MA Material Futures, Central Saint Martins). It reimagines nail salon waste as…
- Electronics-Free Walking Robots Printed in One GoA team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed walking robots that are fully 3D printed from a single, simple…
