3D printing has taken off as a niche manufacturing method, enabling consumers to design and build their own goods. As such, it now holds an important place in the manufacturing industry. Objects can ...

The researchers used an X-ray microbeam during printing to locally measure liquid crystal alignment and direction inside the printer nozzle. A class of synthetic soft materials called liquid crystal ...

Advances in additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, now make it easier and less expensive for companies to manufacture products. With 3-D printing, the time and expense needed to design and produce ...

There are a couple of things that have clearly not happened quite as futurologists predicted, including the paperless office and the move to wholly digital documents. Not only is paper still shuffling ...