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Italian powder maker FOMAS Group has certified its MIMETE gas-atomized iron, nickel, and cobalt powders to ISO 19443, opening the door to nuclear turbine and heat-exchanger components alongside its aerospace and oil & gas business.
Read the story →Vienna researchers used multiphoton lithography and a biodegradable resin to print 0.3mm cartilage scaffolds that restored ~91% of natural cartilage thickness in a 12-week rabbit knee study.
Selle Italia's new Unica saddle line keeps the same molded shell for everyone but 3D prints a unique internal lattice for each rider from their own pressure-mapping scan.
University of Amsterdam physicists print free-standing ice structures at room temperature by firing a 16-micrometer water jet into a 2 mbar vacuum, where evaporative cooling supercools it to freeze on contact, holding unsupported overhangs down to 14 degrees and melting cleanly to water when the pump switches off.
RMIT engineers 3D printed a foam-filled titanium lattice that floats despite being 70% stronger than equal-density steel or HDPE, and it barely degraded after two weeks in Port Phillip Bay.
A Washington State/Minnesota AI framework called BEAM found working directed-energy-deposition settings for NASA's GRCop-42 copper alloy at 500W — a power level no one has printed it at before — using about 40 physical trials instead of manual guesswork.
The Navy is funding a 30-month push to print copper wiring and fiber optics directly inside load-bearing composite UAV parts, aiming to kill the wire harness entirely.
SprintRay's FDA-cleared Midas Restore resin loads over 75% ceramic and zirconia filler by weight, promising 5x the wear resistance of its prior crown material for same-visit dental 3D printing.
SUNLU and INSLOGIC's new FilaDC i10 cabinet dries and stores up to 10 spools using room-temperature molecular-sieve desiccant instead of heat, with $1 early-access reservations open now ahead of a September 15 pre-order launch.
TU Wien researchers printed sub-micrometer microscaffolds from BIO INX's biodegradable DEGRAD INX resin and used them to regrow near-normal cartilage in rabbit knees — the first time this lab-dish technique has worked in a living animal.
Deakin and Seoul National University of Science and Technology researchers 3D printed auxetic 'meta-cylinders' on a rotary-modified desktop printer, tuning stiffness and collapse behavior through geometry alone using a single flexible TPU.
Stuttgart-area startup Malping is betting that granule-fed PEEK, PEKK, PPS-GF20 and ULTEM 9085 printing — plus a system it will sell you outright — beats filament on cost and beats bureaus on control.
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