Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and their collaborators have created a new class of programmable soft materials that can absorb impacts like never before, while also ...

Researchers developed a 3D printing-based method to tailor metal alloys by composition and structure, creating stronger, ...

Laser powder bed fusion, a 3D-printing technique, offers potential in the manufacturing industry, particularly when fabricating nickel-titanium shape memory alloys with complex geometries ...

Researchers at MIT have figured out a way to 3D print shape-changing soft materials. To achieve this, mechanical engineer Xuanhe Zhao and his colleagues developed a 3D-printable ink infused with ...

Feb 19, 2024 Shape shifters: How cells respond to 3D mechanical stiffness (Nanowerk News) Imagine a world inside your body where tiny cells are like workers building and repairing tissue structures.

This is because acquiring 3D models is challenging and annotating mechanical components requires engineering knowledge. Our main contributions are the creation of a large-scale annotated mechanical ...