A new paper, “Full-Field Damage Monitoring in Architected Lattices Using In situ Electrical Impedance Tomography,” points to lattices being able to detect damage. This could really help composites in critical applications such as aviation detect and predict damage as it occurs. Testing and inspection are very important to keeping vehicles safe through maintenance and replacement
3D printers are raising serious money again. On Kickstarter, that is. Over the last few months, a new group of 3D printer campaigns has attracted millions of dollars and thousands of backers. But many of these campaigns go beyond the typical desktop 3D printer. Many of the printers getting funded are bringing technologies that have
By late 2024, there was already enough signaling of the additive manufacturing (AM) industry opportunity in the data center infrastructure market for AM Research to write a report on the topic, which was published in February 2025. Since then, AM use cases in data centers have steadily increased, reinforcing that it’s a topic the industry
Oxidation affects many substances but can also be beneficial. Aluminum, for example, forms a passive oxide film that helps it resist seawater. NAB is often used in ships and forms an aluminum oxide layer that resists seawater and pitting, a process in which local fissures form. Now, researchers at Iowa State University, Arizona State University,
Shares of Nike stock hit all-time highs in late 2021 but have cratered in the years following, with the company losing nearly 80 percent of its market cap since peaking. Even so, it is still obviously a very large corporation, although if this downward spiral continues much longer, the “very” would have to be dropped,
Gordie Folin had deep experience in engineering at Pratt & Whitney, GE, and GE Aviation before becoming the Chief Product Officer at Beehive Industries. Among his achievements, he served as the Executive Director of the groundbreaking Catalyst engine program, which extensively used additive manufacturing. Now at Beehive, he’s in charge of making a family of 3D
Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series by Xu Fanglei examining the technology and patent issues behind the Stratasys-Bambu Lab dispute. Part 1 looked at the $27.6 million U.S. verdict and the purge-tower technology at the center of the case. Part 2 examines the related European proceeding, the continuing U.S. patent challenges,
In 2023, Chinese 3D printer OEM Bambu Lab launched MakerWorld, its collaborative 3D model platform. By early 2026, the platform had about 10 million monthly active users and started to expand its role beyond just a model-sharing website. This month, Bambu partnered with seven top accessibility organizations that use 3D printing to launch a global
We’re starting off with defense in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as Titomic was awarded a $5 million U.S. defense contract, and VulcanForms announced a partnership with Specter Aerospace for air breathing hypersonics manufacturing. Moving on, we’ve got automotive news from Hyundai and ExOne. We’ll end with two news items from Snapmaker. Read on
As a child, I lived in Kenya for a while. When we went to Mombasa, wafting breezes, crunchy white powder that sounds like snow underfoot, beaches bordered by many unseen blues, we had to take malaria medication. Beneath the gauzy beige of my mosquito net, I hallucinated. Sweat baubles on my body, I saw purple
