The Additive Manufacturing Collection

Design for additive manufacturing is the process by which parts and products are specifically designed to be made using AM technologies. Although the basics are easy to understand, becoming an expert can be challenging, especially as the capability of additive technologies rapidly advances.

Researchers at Imperial College in London have developed a 3D-printing system that uses multiple drones to build vertical structures while in flight, as well as to monitor and adjust their building capabilities in real time.

A Penn State research lab has made recent advances in bioprinting bone and breast cancer tumors to heal bone defects and to study cancer.

Using a unique heat treatment process that transforms the structure of alloys in post-production, researchers are now able to 3D print high-temperature components like gas turbine blades that are stronger and more durable than ever before.

Bringing back factory jobs means rethinking business as usual for manufacturers.

A new polymer nanocomposite ink could replace epoxies now used for 3D printing and provide a higher strength-to-weight ratio, customization, flexibility, resistance to corrosion or erosion, and even exhibit thermal and magnetic properties.

Engineers at Purdue University have combined multi-photon lithography with spatiotemporal focusing of femtosecond laser pulses to create complex, 3D nanostructures in one continuous process that are about 25 microns wide.

Cal-Berkeley researchers developed a single-step 3D printing process called Computed Axial Lithography using tomographic reconstruction.

A group at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories has developed an inexpensive miniature retarding potential analyzer (RPA) for mini satellites using a 3D printer.

A company has fit a plastics recycling and additive manufacturing set up in a shipping container.