/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Bio-batteries constructed by electroactive microorganisms have unique advantages in physiological monitoring, tissue integration, and powering implantable devices due to their superior adaptability and biocompatibility. However, the development of miniaturized and portable bio-batteries that are plug and play and compatible with existing devices remains a challenge. /news/2025-04-portable-bio-battery-hydrogels-nerve.html Biotechnology Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:18:03 EDT news665252282 Screen-printed, biodegradable soil sensors that can be composted at the end of their lifecycle could enable farmers to improve crop yields while reducing electronic waste, researchers say. /news/2025-04-compostable-sensors-impact-digital-agriculture.html Biotechnology Agriculture Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:34:05 EDT news662722442 For the first time, researchers have shown that 3D-printed polymer-based micro-optics can withstand the heat and power levels that occur inside a laser. The advance enables inexpensive, compact, and stable laser sources that would be useful in a variety of applications, including the lidar systems used for autonomous vehicles. /news/2023-12-stable-hybrid-laser-3d-micro-optics.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 13 Dec 2023 13:07:41 EST news621695259 Research from West Virginia University students and faculty into how 3D printing works in a weightless environment aims to support long-term exploration and habitation on spaceships, the moon or Mars. /news/2023-10-advance-space-colonization-team-explores.html Space Exploration Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:16:03 EDT news617886961 In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers demonstrated that it's possible to make carbon dioxide capture filters using 3-D printing. Specifically, they printed a hydrogel material that can hold carbonic anhydrase, an enzyme that speeds a reaction that turns carbon dioxide and water into bicarbonate. /news/2023-05-carbon-dioxide-filters-3d-printer.html Materials Science Wed, 31 May 2023 12:37:39 EDT news604755452 If you're a fan of arts and crafts, you're likely familiar with the messy, sticky, frustration-inducing nature of liquid glues. But researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces now have a brand-new way to weld squishy stuff together without the need for glue at all. They've demonstrated a universal, "electroadhesion" technique that can adhere soft materials to each other just by running electricity through them. /news/2023-05-gluing-soft-materials.html Materials Science Wed, 03 May 2023 10:30:47 EDT news602328644 Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is a useful technique that has been widely utilized in our lives, ranging from reconstructive plastic surgery to artificial organ production. However, many biopolymers, such as nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and proteins, cannot be readily constructed into a desired 3D shape at the submicron- or nanoscale due to their inherent rheological and structural properties. Can we truly achieve the free-form and high-resolution structuring of various biomolecules using 3D printing technology? /news/2023-04-era-3d-dnas-proteins.html Biochemistry Materials Science Wed, 12 Apr 2023 15:56:03 EDT news600533761 A method to convert a commonly thrown-away plastic to a resin used in 3D-printing could allow for making better use of plastic waste. /news/2022-08-plastic-valuable-products.html Materials Science Wed, 31 Aug 2022 11:53:03 EDT news581165581 Anne S. Meyer, an associate professor of biology at the University of Rochester, and her collaborators at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands recently developed a 3D printing technique to engineer and study biofilms—three-dimensional communities of microorganisms, such as bacteria, that adhere to surfaces. The research provides important information for creating synthetic materials and in developing drugs to fight the negative effects of biofilms. /news/2021-12-3d-technique-biofilms.html Biotechnology Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:51:22 EST news557679078 Micro-electro-mechanical devices (MEMS) are based on the integration of mechanical and electrical components on a micrometer scale. We all use them continuously in our everyday life: For example, in our mobile phones there are at least a dozen MEMS that regulate different activities ranging from motion, position, and inclination monitoring of the phone; active filters for the different transmission bands, and the microphone itself. /news/2021-11-3d-nanoresonators-miniaturized-multifunctional-sensors.html Nanomaterials Tue, 09 Nov 2021 15:41:15 EST news555694871 In a new study, researchers have shown that 3D printing can be used to make highly precise and complex miniature lenses with sizes of just a few microns. The microlenses can be used to correct color distortion during imaging, enabling small and lightweight cameras that can be designed for a variety of applications. /news/2021-05-3d-complex-micro-optics-imaging.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 13 May 2021 12:49:06 EDT news540128942 A new automated process prints a peptide-based hydrogel scaffold containing uniformly distributed cells. The scaffolds hold their shapes well and successfully facilitate cell growth that lasts for weeks. /news/2021-04-ultrashort-peptides-tissue.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 05 Apr 2021 10:23:43 EDT news536837019 Since Wilhelm Röntgen discovered them in 1895, X-rays have become a staple of medical imaging. In fact, barely a month after Röntgen's famous paper was published, doctors in Connecticut took the first ever radiograph of a boy's broken wrist. /news/2021-02-d-printing-perovskites-graphene-next-gen-x-ray.html Nanomaterials Wed, 17 Feb 2021 16:50:27 EST news532803021 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have developed a new method for 3-D printing living microbes in controlled patterns, expanding the potential for using engineered bacteria to recover rare-earth metals, clean wastewater, detect uranium and more. /news/2021-02-lab-d-microbes-biomaterials.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:58:48 EST news531651524 Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) have developed a new way to create "food inks" from fresh and frozen vegetables that preserves their nutrition and flavor better than existing methods. /news/2021-02-dishing-d-food-tasty-printout.html Other Thu, 04 Feb 2021 07:47:42 EST news531647256 The speed of light has come to 3-D printing. Northwestern University engineers have developed a new method that uses light to improve 3-D printing speed and precision while also, in combination with a high-precision robot arm, providing the freedom to move, rotate or dilate each layer as the structure is being built. /news/2021-02-dynamic-d-features-light-driven.html Materials Science Thu, 04 Feb 2021 03:13:41 EST news531630812 Narrowing of the trachea or the main bronchi due to injury or illness can end very badly. If patients get too little air,oxygen, they risk suffocating and often need medical help as quickly as possible. /news/2021-02-d-printed-bioresorbable-airway-stent.html Materials Science Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:30:24 EST news531585019 Fiber-shaped supercapacitors are a desirable high-performance energy storage technology for wearable electronics. The traditional method for device fabrication is based on a multistep approach to construct energy devices, which can present challenges during fabrication, scalability and durability. To overcome these restrictions, Jingxin Zhao and a team of scientists in physics, electrochemical energy, nanoscience, materials, and chemical engineering in China, the U.S., and Singapore, developed an all-in-one coaxial fiber-shaped asymmetric supercapacitor (FASC) device. The team used direct coherent multi-ink writing, three-dimensional (3-D) printing technology by designing the internal structure of the coaxial needles and regulating the rheological property and feed rates of the multi-ink. The device delivered a superior areal energy and power density with outstanding mechanical stability. The team integrated the fiber-shaped asymmetric supercapacitor (FASC) with mechanical units and pressure sensors to realize high performance and self-powered mechanical devices to monitor systems. The work is now published on Science Advances. /news/2021-01-coherent-multi-ink-fabric-supercapacitors.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 29 Jan 2021 09:30:02 EST news531129094 Hernias are one of the most common soft tissue injuries. Hernias form when intra-abdominal content, such as a loop of the intestine, squeezes through weak, defective or injured areas of the abdominal wall. /news/2021-01-d-biomesh-minimizes-hernia-complications.html Materials Science Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:19:30 EST news530813965 Hydrogel-polymer hybrids are widely used across a variety of applications to form biomedical devices and flexible electronics. However, the technologies are presently limited to hydrogel-polymer hybrid laminates containing silicone rubbers. This can greatly limit the functionality and performance of hydrogel-polymer-based devices and machines. In a new study, Qi Ge, and a team of scientists in mechanics, mechatronic systems, flexible electronics, chemistry and advanced design in China, Singapore and Israel demonstrated a simple and versatile multi-material three-dimensional (3-D) printing approach. The method allowed the development of complex hybrid 3-D structures containing highly stretchable and high water content acrylamide—poly(ethylene glycol)diacrylate (PEGDA) abbreviated as AP hydrogels, covalently bonded with diverse ultraviolet (UV) curable polymers. The team printed the hybrid structures on a self-built digital-light processing (DLP)-based multi-material 3-D printer. They facilitated covalent bonding between the AP hydrogel and other polymers through incomplete polymerization initiated by a water-soluble photoinitiator. The team displayed a few applications based on this approach to propose a new way to realize multifunctional soft devices and machines by bonding hydrogel with diverse polymer in 3-D forms. The work is now published on Science Advances. /news/2021-01-d-highly-stretchable-hydrogel-diverse.html Materials Science Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:30:01 EST news530273111 Researchers have developed a new laser-based process for 3-D printing intricate parts made of glass. With further development, the new method could be useful for making complex optics for vision, imaging, illumination or laser-based applications. /news/2021-01-laser-based-d-glass.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:54:37 EST news529674873 Inspired by the color-changing skin of cuttlefish, octopuses and squids, Rutgers engineers have created a 3-D-printed smart gel that changes shape when exposed to light, becomes "artificial muscle" and may lead to new military camouflage, soft robotics and flexible displays. /news/2021-01-d-printed-smart-gel-exposed.html Materials Science Tue, 05 Jan 2021 07:20:58 EST news529053653 A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Germany has developed new chemistry for improved control of the volume of liquid in volumetric additive manufacturing. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their process and how well it worked when tested. /news/2020-12-chemistry-volume-liquid-volumetric-additive.html Polymers Materials Science Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:10:01 EST news528026402 Chemists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a way to integrate liquids directly into materials during the 3-D printing process. This allows, for example, active medical agents to be incorporated into pharmaceutical products or luminous liquids to be integrated into materials, which allow monitoring of damage. The study was published in Advanced Materials Technologies. /news/2020-12-combined-d.html Materials Science Wed, 16 Dec 2020 12:21:30 EST news527343681 In a step toward making more accurate and uniform 3-D-printed parts such as personalized prosthetics and dental materials, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a method of measuring the rate at which microscopic regions of a liquid raw material harden into a solid plastic when exposed to light. /news/2020-12-nanocylinder-vibrations-quantify-polymer-d.html Polymers Materials Science Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:07:59 EST news526838876 In recent years, it has become possible to use laser beams and electron beams to "print" engineering objects with complex shapes that could not be achieved by conventional manufacturing. The additive manufacturing (AM) process, or 3-D printing, for metallic materials involves melting and fusing fine-scale powder particles—each about 10 times finer than a grain of beach sand—in sub-millimeter-scale "pools" created by focusing a laser or electron beam on the material. /news/2020-12-group-defect-resistant-superalloy-d-printed.html Materials Science Tue, 08 Dec 2020 14:56:37 EST news526661792 A team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists has simulated the droplet ejection process in an emerging metal 3-D printing technique called "Liquid Metal Jetting" (LMJ), a critical aspect to the continued advancement of liquid metal printing technologies. /news/2020-12-lab-droplet-dynamics-advances-d.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:06:36 EST news526291594 Researchers have developed new 3-D-printed microlenses with adjustable refractive indices—a property that gives them highly specialized light-focusing abilities. This advancement is poised to improve imaging, computing and communications by significantly increasing the data-routing capability of computer chips and other optical systems, the researchers said. /news/2020-12-optics-data-transfer-3d-printed-lens.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 03 Dec 2020 14:47:15 EST news526229230 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have taken a promising step in improving the reliability of laser-based metal 3-D printing techniques by measuring the emission of electrons from the surface of stainless steel during laser processing. /news/2020-12-electron-emission-laser-based-metal-d.html Materials Science Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:02:13 EST news526204929 The emerging services such as data center cloud interconnection services, ultra-bandwidth video services, and 5G mobile services stimulate the fast development of photonic integrated circuits (PIC), which can meet the increasing demand of communication systems for internet. /news/2020-11-confinement-d-space.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:35:34 EST news525954931