{"id":128987,"date":"2021-10-14T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/holography-based-3d-printing-produces-objects-in-seconds-instead-of-hours"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:22:19","slug":"holography-based-3d-printing-produces-objects-in-seconds-instead-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/holography-based-3d-printing-produces-objects-in-seconds-instead-of-hours","title":{"rendered":"Holography-based 3D printing produces objects in seconds instead of hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/holography-based-3d-printing-produces-objects-in-seconds-instead-of-hours2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O,.o! Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>3D printers are useful devices for all kinds of reasons, but most have a critical weakness: they simply take a long time to actually <em>make<\/em> anything. That\u2019s because additive manufacturing generally works by putting down an object one microscopic layer at a time. But a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/12\/eaao5496\" rel=\"noopener\">new holographic printing technique<\/a> makes it possible to create the entire thing at once \u2014 in as little as a second or two.<\/p>\n<p>Light-based 3D printing techniques generally use lasers to cause a layer of resin to harden in a pattern, but like extrusion printers, they have to do it layer by layer. If the laser shined all the way through the liquid resin, it would cause a big line of it to cure.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you shined multiple weaker lasers through the resin, none of which was powerful enough to cure it except when they all intersected? That\u2019s the technique developed by a team led by researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O,.o! Circa 2017 3D printers are useful devices for all kinds of reasons, but most have a critical weakness: they simply take a long time to actually make anything. That\u2019s because additive manufacturing generally works by putting down an object one microscopic layer at a time. But a new holographic printing technique makes it possible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}