{"id":138465,"date":"2022-04-22T18:09:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-develop-rapid-new-method-of-3d-printing-glass-into-parts-with-the-thickness-of-hair"},"modified":"2022-04-22T18:09:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T23:09:34","slug":"scientists-develop-rapid-new-method-of-3d-printing-glass-into-parts-with-the-thickness-of-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-develop-rapid-new-method-of-3d-printing-glass-into-parts-with-the-thickness-of-hair","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop rapid new method of 3D printing glass into parts with \u201cthe thickness of hair\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-rapid-new-method-of-3d-printing-glass-into-parts-with-the-thickness-of-hair2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/en\/\">University of Freiburg<\/a> have worked with colleagues at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/\">University of California, Berkeley<\/a> to come up with a novel means of rapidly 3D printing complex glass parts at a microscopic scale.<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u2018Microscale Computed Axial Lithography\u2019 (Micro-CAL), this approach involves exposing resin to 2D light images of a desired shape from multiple angles, which when they overlap, trigger polymerization. When used to print the <a href=\"https:\/\/glassomer.com\/\">Glassomer<\/a> material previously honed at Freiburg, the team say their layer-free process has the potential to unlock devices with new microfluidic or micro-optical functionality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, we were able to print glass with structures in the range of 50 micrometers in just a few minutes, which corresponds roughly to the thickness of a hair,\u201d explains the University of Freiburg\u2019s Dr. Frederik Kotz-Helmer. The ability to manufacture such components at high speed and with great geometric freedom will enable new functions and more cost-effective products in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Freiburg have worked with colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley to come up with a novel means of rapidly 3D printing complex glass parts at a microscopic scale. Known as \u2018Microscale Computed Axial Lithography\u2019 (Micro-CAL), this approach involves exposing resin to 2D light images of a desired shape from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138465","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=138465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}