Top 10 international innovations in the field of 3D printing in 2016 and five major innovations in China

Abstract INNOVATION1: Swiss scientists 3D printing gold and silver nano wall can produce higher performance touch screen touch screen technology is realized by micro-conducting electrodes sprayed on the surface of the device. This electrode, which is almost invisible to the naked eye, is a nano wall made of a conductive material...
International Top Ten Innovations INNOVATION 1: Swiss scientists 3D printing gold and silver nano wall can produce higher performance touch screen
Touch screen technology is achieved by means of tiny conductive electrodes that are sprayed onto the surface of the device. This electrode, which is almost invisible to the naked eye, is composed of nano-walls made of a conductive material, and the most commonly used material is indium tin oxide. Its transparency is high, but its conductivity is poor. The Zurich Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) has found a viable and innovative approach – “nano-droplet” 3D printing. This method can print ultra-thin "nano wall" with gold and silver nanoparticles as raw materials, thus creating a transparent conductive electrode that has never been seen before, and finally creating a touch screen with better picture quality and more accurate response. The new method of ETH - using gold and silver nanoparticles as raw material 3D printing nano wall has no such defect, because it can achieve high transparency and conductivity at the same time.
The magic of ETH's nano 3D printing technology not only allows metal materials to retain their original conductivity, but also creates transparent structures. At present, researchers have used this technology to successfully print 3D ultra-thin electrode layers with thickness between 80-500 nm.
INNOVATION 2: From resin to ceramics, California high temperature ceramic 3D printing technology
The HRL lab in Malibu, Calif., invented a compatible and photocurable/3D printed resin formulation that can be fired to produce dense ceramic parts after 3D printing. This is an amazing breakthrough because it enables the production of arbitrary polygonal ceramic parts that are strong and temperature-free, without any processing of the ceramic surface, without the need for casting or caulking.
HRL UV-cured rapidly pre-formed ceramic precursors - "precursor-converting polymers" - ceramics made from these polymers shrink evenly with little porosity. Mini-grid and honeycomb materials can be formed, which are not only complex in shape but also exhibit high strength. Such density foam ceramics can be used in propulsion parts, thermal protection systems, porous burners, MEMS and electronic equipment. When used in hypersonic vehicles and jet engines, this ceramic can help designers create small parts that resist heat and high temperatures caused by exhaust gases from the takeoff process.
INNOVATION 3: 1000 times faster than existing systems, MIT will redefine 3D scanning
Most Lidar systems currently on the market (including those installed on self-driving cars) use discrete free-space optics, including lasers, lenses, and external receivers. In these hardware combinations, the laser rotates while oscillating, which limits its scanning range and complexity. And the cost ranges from $1,000 to $70,000.
MIT's lidar chips are smaller, lighter, cheaper, and potentially more powerful because there are no moving parts in the chip, which is 1000 times faster than current lidar systems and can be used to track high-speed moving vehicles. .
The MIT laser radar chip works closely with silicon photonics. The wavelength of the silicon waveguide is much smaller than that of the fiber, which makes the photonic circuit on a very small chip have properties similar to optical fibers. The technology is also not expensive to commercialize and can be produced in a large number of CMOS foundries and addresses issues such as waveguide loss and optical isolation.
INNOVATION 4: MIT Cilllia hair that will have a huge impact on smart design
Inspired by natural animals and human hair, Cilllia's hair developed by MIT is printed by the technique of curing photosensitive resin. By controlling the precision of 3D printing to an extremely subtle level, these hairs are "programmable" for microstructure. Thus, the hair exhibits a nerve-like sensitivity to stress and to the sound, and changes in curvature with external stimuli.
However, Cilllia refers not to the hair itself, but to the modeling software platform. Through the steps of CAD design on the platform, through the slider interface, users can easily design thousands of hairs in just a few minutes. Just determine the angle, thickness, density, and height of the hair.
Through careful design of the hair, it has the magical effect of “driver”, achieving positive “drive” and reverse “drive” in a straight line. This is an innovative field for dynamics, changing the way we need motors or others. The current state of the power device to make the object move.
INNOVATION 5: Like a growing 3D printed military drone
BAE Systems, the world's third-largest defense contractor, announced that they are developing a chemical-based Chemputer that can be "growthed" from scratch to a highly advanced customization in just a few days. Man-machine.
The purpose of BAE Systems' investment in the development of this technology is to rapidly establish military equipment supply close to the battlefield and overcome any geographical, technical or digital disadvantages. Chemputer's vision for printing drones is functional and fast. Ultra-high altitudes and rapid response are designed to overcome the production constraints of today's military environment.
Print products are not limited to simple products, but include the production of complex electronic systems. At the same time, the printed materials are environmentally friendly and recyclable. In addition to printing a complete drone fuselage, the printer can also be used to produce parts for large manned aircraft, opening up space for this technology to be used for civilian use.
INNOVATION 6: Ion exchange membrane 3D printing technology
Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have developed an ionic membrane 3D printing technology that can flexibly and quickly print a variety of 3D patterns on the surface of ion exchange membranes to improve performance.
According to the research team, this 3D printing technology is similar to the current common SLA (light curing) 3D printing technology. The printing material is a photocurable ionic polymer mixture. When the mixture is exposed to a light projector, The 3D printer projects and selectively cures the designed pattern on its surface. The surface pattern can increase the conductivity of the film by as much as one to three orders of magnitude.
3D Science Valley learned that the ion exchange membrane model made using this 3D printing technology is the first model to quantify the exchange membrane resistance. A simple parallel resistance model can be used to describe the effect these patterns have on reducing the resistance of these new films. This approach gives ion exchange membrane designers a design tool that can help them innovate and design new patterns to further improve the intrinsic chemistry of the material.
INNOVATION 7: Disney Near Instant Resin Printing Technology
Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have developed an ionic membrane 3D printing technology that can flexibly and quickly print a variety of 3D patterns on the surface of ion exchange membranes to improve performance.
According to the research team, this 3D printing technology is similar to the current common SLA (light curing) 3D printing technology. The printing material is a photocurable ionic polymer mixture. When the mixture is exposed to a light projector, The 3D printer projects and selectively cures the designed pattern on its surface. The surface pattern can increase the conductivity of the film by as much as one to three orders of magnitude.
The ion exchange membrane model made using this 3D printing technique is the first model to quantify the exchange membrane resistance. A simple parallel resistance model can be used to describe the effect these patterns have on reducing the resistance of these new films. This approach gives ion exchange membrane designers a design tool that can help them innovate and design new patterns to further improve the intrinsic chemistry of the material.
INNOVATION 8: German Fraunhofer multi-material printing technology for very complex parts printing
The Fraunhofer Institute and the IKTS Systems Institute in Germany have developed a new 3D printing technology that can print not only medical products such as orthopedic implants, dentures, and surgical tools, but also very complex and tiny parts such as microreactors.
The 3D printing technology developed by the Fraunhofer Institute is a ceramic or metal powder suspension. The ceramic or metal powder is mixed in a low melting thermoplastic binder that melts into a liquid at 80 degrees Celsius. During the printing process, the electrical temperature of the printer melts the adhesive and is mixed with ceramic or metal powder material in the form of droplets. After deposition, the droplets rapidly cool and harden, and the three-dimensional object is gradually printed out point by point.
INNOVATION 9: Boeing Suspended 3D Printing Technology
At the beginning of 2016, Boeing successfully approved a patent for advanced 3D printing technology. It is different from any previous 3D printing technology. There is no physical printing platform in the 3D printing process. During the printing process, the printing object can also be flipped in the air.
When printing, the print head first extrudes a piece of material. The piece of printed material is suspended in the air by the force of the magnetic field, and then the remaining materials are deposited layer by layer from different directions by a plurality of print heads arranged in a circle. On the block material. The printed material is a diamagnetic material that becomes superconducting after super cooling. The magnetic field can also rotate the 3D printed object and deposit the material on the bottom of the printed object to achieve 360-degree 3D printing without dead angle.
The benefits of 3D printing without dead ends are the complete breakthrough of shape constraints for overall 3D printing of more complex parts. In addition, 3D printing at different times in different directions by multiple 3D print heads will significantly increase the printing speed.
INNOVATION 10: Harvard University's artificial tissue 3D printing with blood vessels
In 2016, Harvard University received the latest breakthrough to print out organizations that maintain biological functions and can survive for more than six weeks. Researchers at Harvard University used three bio-inks throughout the printing process. The first of these inks contains an extracellular matrix, a complex mixture of water, proteins, and carbohydrates that connects each cell to form a tissue. The second ink contains extracellular matrices and stem cells. The third is used to print blood vessels, which melt during cooling, so researchers can extract the ink from the cooled material and retain the hollow tube.
The researchers filled the ink containing the extracellular matrix into the mold. Finally, the artificial tissue filled with capillaries is cultivated. The researchers input nutrients to the tissue through the access ports at both ends of the silicone mold to ensure cell survival. Artificial blood vessels will promote the directed differentiation of stem cells by transporting cell growth factors to the entire artificial tissue, thereby forming thicker tissues.
The five major innovations in China INNOVATION 1: The Chinese Academy of Sciences Fujian Institute of Materials has developed faster printing technology
The Lin Wenxiong team of the 3D Printing Engineering Technology R&D Center of the Fujian Institute of Physical Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that it has broken through the key technology of rapid prototyping of 3D objects for continuous printing in China, and developed a super fast continuous digital projection (DLP) 3D printer. .
The specific printing technology principle is: using DLP projection system to provide illumination light source, illuminating the construction area at the bottom of the resin tank to form a solidified area; at the same time, oxygen or air is introduced, oxygen or air passes through the semi-permeable transparent element into the resin tank, on the inner bottom surface and A layer of tens of microns thick of the cured layer is formed between the cured regions. Due to the presence of the liquid-inhibited solidified layer, the solidified area and the bottom of the resin tank can be easily separated without damage, achieving high-speed continuity of the whole process of solidification. The Fujian object said that they obtained a maximum printing speed of more than 600 mm/h, which was released by the American Carbon 3D Company. The continuous 3D printing device is about 20% faster.
INNOVATION 2: China's first cloud-based online modeling software GeekCAD
The first fully web-based online modeling software in China. GeekCAD (geekcad.com) began to invite some users to try it out at the end of 2015, and officially released the Beta version in 2016. GeekCAD's vision is to make 3D design easy for everyone, anyone can open a browser to model and share design for anyone.
GeekCAD's cloud-based CAD takes a business model similar to SAS (service as sales), so users don't have to spend a one-time fee for buying genuine software, and they don't need to download or install software. Even if users use non-professional configuration level hardware, they can model as they wish, saving time, convenience and saving money. Both Chinese and English interfaces and community-based maker display space are the best choice for 3D printing to enter school education and to create students' creative ability.
INNOVATION 3: High-hardness 3D printing resin material from Plastic Technology
Carbon's CEO Joe Desimone's fellow teacher Helen, after graduating from Virginia Tech University in the United States, returned to Beijing in 2016 to build Plastic Technology. Plastics Technology develops functional new materials for the problems of hardness, tensile strength, wear resistance and temperature resistance that are common in the light-cured 3D printing market. The high-hardness resin and high-toughness resin developed by Plastics Technology are two kinds of light-curing 3D printing materials, which have very obvious superior performance.
INNOVATION 4: Huazhong University of Science and Technology has 3D printing of metal parts for forging performance
In July 2016, July 22nd, Huazhong University of Science and Technology reported that the new metal 3D printing technology “Intelligent Micro-casting and Forging” led by Professor Zhang Haiou, the State Key Laboratory of Digital Equipment and Technology, has recently successfully produced 3D printing forgings. High-end metal parts for performance. It is expected to change the 3D printing pattern of wire in the world led by Western countries.
Through the micro-casting and forging parts, the technical indicators and performance are more stable than traditional castings. At the same time, the technology uses metal wire as raw material, and the material utilization rate is over 80%. Because this technology can simultaneously control the shape and size of the part, the product cycle is greatly reduced. Making a two-ton large metal casting, which used to take more than three months, is now only about ten days.
3D Science Valley believes that Huazhong University of Science and Technology's "smart micro-casting" technology or EBAM technology similar to Sciaky, this wire-based additive manufacturing technology, does not require the free near net shape of the mold, and is fully digital and highly flexible. The printed parts are all dense, without macro segregation and shrinkage, and have high performance, which brings the possibility of replacing the forging technology in the aviation field.
INNOVATION 5: Joint Cage 3D Printing Technology at Peking University Third Hospital
Atlantoaxial dislocation (AD) refers to the normal joint relationship between the first segment (the atlas) and the second segment (the atlantoaxial joint) of the cervical vertebra, which causes the medulla oblongata and the high cervical spinal cord to be compressed. Vertebral artery orientation and hemodynamic changes; dizziness or syncope may occur in severe cases, and severe extremities may cause paralysis of the limbs and even respiratory failure. Due to its disability and high mortality rate, atlantoaxial dislocation is one of the hotspots and difficulties in spine surgery research worldwide.
A joint fusion device provided by Peking University Third Hospital that was able to perform fixed fusion and fusion biomechanics with only one operation was approved by the Patent Office in February 2016. The fusion hole is arranged on the support block of the invention, and the cancellous bone or the bone adjacent to the implantation site can be easily inserted, thereby realizing the fusion of the bone and the implant, fixing and fusion in one operation, and adopting a wedge shape. The block structure makes the cancellous bone under compressive stress, which is conducive to fusion.

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