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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:03 AM Mar 2015

Fundamentally new 3-D printing technology uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool

Revolutionary 3-D printing technology uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool of liquid

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A 3-D printing technology enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously rather than being built layer by layer as they have been for the past 25 years, representing a fundamentally new approach to 3-D printing. The technology allows ready-to-use products to be made 25 to 100 times faster than other methods and creates previously unachievable geometries that open opportunities for innovation not only in health care and medicine, but also in other major industries such as automotive and aviation.

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Fundamentally new 3-D printing technology uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from a pool (Original Post) Panich52 Mar 2015 OP

Getting ever closer to those 'liquid metal' terminators ;) Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 #1

Gah! I misread the post title as: ..."to synthesize materials from a poo" The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. Getting ever closer to those 'liquid metal' terminators ;)

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Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:07 AM

Mar 2015

They can use nano-makers to rebuild themselves when they get broken

The Velveteen Ocelot

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2. Gah! I misread the post title as: ..."to synthesize materials from a poo"

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Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:09 AM

Mar 2015

Wouldn't it be cool (and environmentally useful) if there were a revolutionary 3-D printing technology that uses light and oxygen to synthesize materials from poo? Which isn't to say that the real method isn't also very cool.

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