Researchers have used 3-D printing to create ceramic structures from silicon polymers. Scientists at HRL Laboratories LLC in Malibu, Calif., announced their process overcomes the limitations of ...

Engineers have mimicked lightweight yet strong biological materials by creating nanostructured, hollow ceramic scaffolds, and have found that their small building blocks, or unit cells, display ...

The promise of additive manufacturing or 3-D printing—faster and cheaper manufacturing of more customizable parts—is limited by the palette of printable materials, which until now has included mainly ...

3D printing is providing an ever-increasing opportunity for industrial works to create their own parts on demand, but so far most of those parts had to be made out of polymers and some metals.

Solid-phase sintering method was used to dope Nd and Sm ions at the Y sites of Y₂MgTiO₆ ceramics, forming a solid solution and significantly increasing the Q×f value. The analysis of chemical bonds ...

To make ultrastrong yet lightweight materials for aerospace components, researchers have in the past decade created complex 3-D lattices that are mostly air but gain strength from their intricate ...

The smallest lattice in the world is visible under the microscope only. Struts and braces are 0.2 µm in diameter. Total size of the lattice is about 10 µm. (Image: J. Bauer / KIT) “Lightweight ...

ATG Innovation Ltd. (Irish subsidiary of ATG Europe) is leading the industrialisation of this technology. Satellite central tube (SCT) structures, which form the structural backbone of satellites, ...

Ceramic balls have world-famous surfaces and precision geometry. The inherently strong material can often perform when other materials flake out. Though increasingly affordable, there’s no getting ...

3D printing holds a lot of potential but it is limited by the number of printable materials out there. Researchers have added heat-resistant ceramic to the list, however, opening up more possibilities ...