{"id":206704,"date":"2025-02-19T05:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/3d-nanoprinting-technique-can-transform-ceramics-for-high-performance-systems-from-disease-detection-to-space-travel"},"modified":"2025-02-24T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:17:01","slug":"3d-nanoprinting-technique-can-transform-ceramics-for-high-performance-systems-from-disease-detection-to-space-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/3d-nanoprinting-technique-can-transform-ceramics-for-high-performance-systems-from-disease-detection-to-space-travel","title":{"rendered":"3D nanoprinting technique can transform ceramics for high-performance systems, from disease detection to space travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-nanoprinting-technique-can-transform-ceramics-for-high-performance-systems-from-disease-detection-to-space-travel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same material from which you drink your morning coffee could transform the way scientists detect disease, purify water, and insulate space shuttles thanks to an entirely new approach to ceramic manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/advs.202405334\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in <i>Advanced Science<\/i>, 3D-AJP is an aerosol jet 3D nanoprinting technique that allows for the fabrication of highly complex ceramic structures that\u2014at just 10 micrometers (a fraction of the width of human hair)\u2014are barely visible to the naked eye. These 3D structures are made up of microscale features including pillars, spirals, and lattices that allow for controlled porosity, ultimately enabling advances in ceramic applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be impossible to machine ceramic structures as small and as precise as these using traditional manufacturing methods,\u201d explained Rahul Panat, professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and the lead author of the study. \u201cThey would shatter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same material from which you drink your morning coffee could transform the way scientists detect disease, purify water, and insulate space shuttles thanks to an entirely new approach to ceramic manufacturing. Published in Advanced Science, 3D-AJP is an aerosol jet 3D nanoprinting technique that allows for the fabrication of highly complex ceramic structures that\u2014at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206704","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=206704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207150,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206704\/revisions\/207150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}