{"id":208382,"date":"2025-03-11T22:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nature-inspired-3d-printing-method-shoots-up-faster-than-bamboo"},"modified":"2025-03-11T22:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T03:05:56","slug":"nature-inspired-3d-printing-method-shoots-up-faster-than-bamboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nature-inspired-3d-printing-method-shoots-up-faster-than-bamboo","title":{"rendered":"Nature-inspired 3D-printing method shoots up faster than bamboo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nature-inspired-3d-printing-method-shoots-up-faster-than-bamboo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charging forward at top speed, a garden snail slimes up 1 millimeter of pavement per second. By this logic, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology researchers\u2019 new 3D printing process speeds past existing methods\u2014at a snail\u2019s pace.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Beckman\u2019s Autonomous Materials Systems Group created \u201cgrowth printing,\u201d which mimics tree trunks\u2019 outward expansion to print polymer parts quickly and efficiently without the molds and expensive equipment typically associated with 3D printing. Their work appears in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202406265\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Advanced Materials<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumans are incredibly talented at making things. Completely new manufacturing processes are hard to find. Growth printing is entirely new, which is thrilling,\u201d said Sameh Tawfick, a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and project lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charging forward at top speed, a garden snail slimes up 1 millimeter of pavement per second. By this logic, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology researchers\u2019 new 3D printing process speeds past existing methods\u2014at a snail\u2019s pace. Researchers in Beckman\u2019s Autonomous Materials Systems Group created \u201cgrowth printing,\u201d which mimics tree trunks\u2019 outward expansion to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208382","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}