{"id":140016,"date":"2022-05-31T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/direct-sound-printing-is-a-potential-game-changer-in-3d-printing-according-to-researchers"},"modified":"2022-05-31T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T18:22:18","slug":"direct-sound-printing-is-a-potential-game-changer-in-3d-printing-according-to-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/direct-sound-printing-is-a-potential-game-changer-in-3d-printing-according-to-researchers","title":{"rendered":"Direct sound printing is a potential game-changer in 3D printing, according to researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/direct-sound-printing-is-a-potential-game-changer-in-3d-printing-according-to-researchers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most 3D printing methods currently in use rely either on photo (light)- or thermo (heat)-activated reactions to achieve precise manipulation of polymers. The development of a new platform technology called direct sound printing (DSP), which uses soundwaves to produce new objects, may offer a third option.<\/p>\n<p>The process is described in a paper published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>. It shows how focused ultrasound waves can be used to create sonochemical reactions in minuscule cavitation regions\u2014essentially tiny bubbles. Extremes of temperature and pressure lasting trillionths of a second can generate pre-designed complex geometries that cannot be made with existing techniques.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltrasonic frequencies are already being used in destructive procedures like laser ablation of tissues and tumors. We wanted to use them to create something,\u201d says Muthukumaran Packirisamy, a professor and Concordia Research Chair in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science. He is the paper\u2019s corresponding author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most 3D printing methods currently in use rely either on photo (light)- or thermo (heat)-activated reactions to achieve precise manipulation of polymers. The development of a new platform technology called direct sound printing (DSP), which uses soundwaves to produce new objects, may offer a third option. The process is described in a paper published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140016","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}