3D Printed Material 10X Stronger Than Steel
A new way of 3D printing internal material structures that make them up to ten times stronger than steel at five percent of steel’s density.
Continue ReadingA new way of 3D printing internal material structures that make them up to ten times stronger than steel at five percent of steel’s density.
Continue ReadingMaterials with specially-designed internal microstructures deform to create macroscopic motion.
Continue ReadingLaunched this summer, Corning’s Willow Glass is an ultra-thin (0.1mm), flexible, roll-processable glass sheet intended for use in next-generation display devices. From an applications point of view, it offers the possibility of curved displays and/or interfaces that wrap around object or devices, and from a manufacturing point of view, the possibility of producing display devices using continuous “roll-to-roll” assembly, kind of like how bulk paper goods are processed.
Continue ReadingA finger rubbed in superhydrophobic aerogels and submerged in water takes on a decidedly T-1000-esque appearance. And a droplet of water on a piece of paper treated with the same substance behaves more like a drop of mercury on a piece of glass. Definitely worth a click and a few eyeball-seconds.
Continue ReadingThere are so many cool projects out there that use conductive ink, but where to get the ink? Now you can DIY that part, too!
Continue ReadingThe first time I used ShapeLock was my hotel room at Maker Faire: Bay Area. Ever since then I have been hooked to this wonderful material. But “what is it” you ask?
Continue ReadingThe folks at Aerogel.org are serious about it: The “Make” section of their exhaustive “open source aerogel” site will teach you how to make high-quality monolithic aerogel the way the pros do it, from building your our own supercritical drying apparatus (“manuclave” is their neologism), to mixing up the wet ingredients, to actually performing the […]
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