For some time, the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printing sector has been attempting to develop a dependable means for printing rubber-like filaments into desired shapes. The effort to establish ...

D printing creates solid objects from the additive process of layering plastics, metal, wood, synthetic fibers, and more.

We generally think of 3D printed components as being hard bits of plastic, because for the most part, that’s what we’ve got loaded up in our desktop machines. But outside of the normal PLA, PETG, and ...

Among the latest materials-related business developments in liquid silicone rubber, ACEO is launching new fluorosilicone versions of its LSR 3D printing materials. The ACEO business unit of Burghausen ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move.

PLANO, Texas—Adaptive3D Technologies has released a new photopolymer resin for 3D printing, a material the company said is in line with its vision to produce high-quality, high-volume elastomers.

It would certainly be great if the sole of your shoe broke if it could fix itself. What if your tires could repair themselves if punctured while you kept on driving? Researchers at the University of ...

Sometimes it would be helpful if a 3D printed object could stretch & bend. Flexible filament like TPU is one option, but [NagyBig] designed a simple bracelet to ask: how about embedding rubber bands ...

LOWELL, Mass.—A Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell's rubber and plastic engineering department, Haley Dobbyn is not only a polymer pioneer, but the commander of an army.

An origami-based magnetic muscle drives two robots. One precisely introduces medicine into the human body, the other is a ...

NC State researchers create 3D-printed magnetic origami robots for precise, targeted drug delivery inside the body.