{"id":130674,"date":"2021-11-16T01:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/polymer-discovery-gives-3d-printed-sand-super-strength"},"modified":"2021-11-16T01:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T09:22:28","slug":"polymer-discovery-gives-3d-printed-sand-super-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/polymer-discovery-gives-3d-printed-sand-super-strength","title":{"rendered":"Polymer discovery gives 3D-printed sand super strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/polymer-discovery-gives-3d-printed-sand-super-strength2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a novel polymer to bind and strengthen silica sand for binder jet additive manufacturing, a 3D-printing method used by industries for prototyping and part production.<\/p>\n<p>The printable polymer enables <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sand\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sand<\/a> structures with intricate geometries and exceptional strength\u2014and is also water soluble.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, demonstrates a 3D-printed sand bridge that at 6.5 centimeters can hold 300 times its own weight, a feat analogous to 12 Empire State Buildings sitting on the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a novel polymer to bind and strengthen silica sand for binder jet additive manufacturing, a 3D-printing method used by industries for prototyping and part production. The printable polymer enables sand structures with intricate geometries and exceptional strength\u2014and is also water soluble. The study, published [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130674","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}