For thousands of years, humans have combined metals to collectively harness properties found in individual components, ...

For the first time, scientists have 3-D printed objects within living cells, including a 10-micrometer long elephant and tiny “barcodes” that could help track individual cells. Remarkably, many of the ...

Just as the sleek texture of shark skin allows these ocean predators to glide effortlessly through water, advanced films ...

Aug 26, 2024: 3D-printed microstructures for precise, pump-free liquid flow in microfluidic systems (Nanowerk Spotlight) The control of fluids at microscopic scales is fundamental to numerous ...

Three-dimensional (3D) printed lattice microstructures that mimic human soft tissues provide a building block towards developing anatomically realistic biomechanical testbed models. Researchers at the ...

Movable microstructures from the printer Microstructures can be moved by light and temperature Date: January 29, 2019 Source: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) ...

The microstructures of materials undergo changes as they are processed and as materials operate. Their description must thus be able to cover all the various changes that occur in materials over ...

Tiny organisms move microstructures. 10 Jul 2007 Hamish Johnston. Researchers in the US have harnessed bacteria to move micrometre-sized sheets of epoxy through a liquid. The motion could be stopped ...