3D Printing
A resin printer from Chad Mirkin’s lab at Northwestern University in Illinois can create structures as large as a person in hours (image sequence sped up). Credit: Northwestern University
In 2015, Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill unveiled a technique to speed up 3D printing.Credit: Carbon 3D Inc.
A projector shines a video loop onto liquid resin, causing an entire object to be created at once, rather than layer by layer.Credit: UC Berkeley
A view of MX3D’s printer during the process of printing a metal bridge.Credit: Olivier de Gruijter/MX3D
A metal printer at start-up firm Relativity Space, which aims to test a mostly 3D-printed rocket this year.Credit: Relativity Space
The 3D Systems ChefJet Pro 3D food printer, designed for use by hotels and restaurants, produces sweets in multiple colours with a single added flavour.
A 3D-printed concrete pedestrian bridge developed by Tsinghua University.Credit: Imaginechina/Shutterstock
A machine that combines multiple 3D printing methods could one day produce prosthetic limbs.Credit: Jae C. Hong/AP/REX/Shutterstock
A combination of light-sensitive resins makes it possible to print a ‘butterfly’ with flexible joints. Credit: N. D. Dolinski et al./ Adv.Mater.