{"id":181014,"date":"2024-01-21T12:26:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T18:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-create-faster-and-cheaper-way-to-print-tiny-metal-structures-with-light"},"modified":"2024-01-21T12:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T18:26:38","slug":"researchers-create-faster-and-cheaper-way-to-print-tiny-metal-structures-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-create-faster-and-cheaper-way-to-print-tiny-metal-structures-with-light","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create faster and cheaper way to print tiny metal structures with light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-faster-and-cheaper-way-to-print-tiny-metal-structures-with-light2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a light-based means of printing nano-sized metal structures that is significantly faster and cheaper than any technology currently available. It is a scalable solution that could transform a scientific field long reliant on technologies that are prohibitively expensive and slow. The breakthrough has the potential to bring new technologies out of labs and into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Technological advances in many fields rely on the ability to print metallic structures that are nano-sized\u2014a scale hundreds of times smaller than the width of a human hair. Sourabh Saha, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and Jungho Choi, a Ph.D. student in Saha\u2019s lab, developed a technique for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/printing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">printing<\/a> metal nanostructures that is 480 times faster and 35 times cheaper than the current conventional method.<\/p>\n<p>Their research is <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202308112\">published<\/a> in the journal Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a light-based means of printing nano-sized metal structures that is significantly faster and cheaper than any technology currently available. It is a scalable solution that could transform a scientific field long reliant on technologies that are prohibitively expensive and slow. The breakthrough has the potential 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":[38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181014","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=181014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}