{"id":169409,"date":"2023-08-10T08:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/technology-advance-could-expand-the-reach-of-3d-nanoprinting"},"modified":"2023-08-10T08:26:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:26:46","slug":"technology-advance-could-expand-the-reach-of-3d-nanoprinting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/technology-advance-could-expand-the-reach-of-3d-nanoprinting","title":{"rendered":"Technology advance could expand the reach of 3D nanoprinting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/technology-advance-could-expand-the-reach-of-3d-nanoprinting2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed an easy-to-build, low-cost 3D nanoprinting system that can create arbitrary 3D structures with extremely fine features. The new 3D nanoprinting technique is precise enough to print metamaterials as well as a variety of optical devices and components such as microlenses, micro-optical devices and metamaterials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur system uses a two-step <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/absorption\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">absorption<\/a> process to realize 3D printing with accuracy reaching the nanometer level, which is suitable for commercial manufacturing,\u201d said research team leader Cuifang Kuang from the Zhejiang Lab and Zhejiang University, both in China. \u201cIt can be used for a variety of applications such as printing micro or nanostructures for studying biological cells or fabricating the specialized optical waveguides used for virtual and augmented reality devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conventional high-resolution 3D nanoprinting approaches use pulsed femtosecond lasers that cost tens of thousands of dollars. In <i>Optics Letters<\/i>, Kuang and colleagues describe their new system based on an integrated fiber-coupled continuous-wave <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a> diode that is not only inexpensive but also easy to operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed an easy-to-build, low-cost 3D nanoprinting system that can create arbitrary 3D structures with extremely fine features. The new 3D nanoprinting technique is precise enough to print metamaterials as well as a variety of optical devices and components such as microlenses, micro-optical devices and metamaterials. \u201cOur system uses a two-step absorption process to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1498,3,1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-augmented-reality","category-biological","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169409","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}