{"id":210543,"date":"2025-04-04T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/beyond-welding-researchers-3d-print-a-single-complex-structure-containing-two-metals"},"modified":"2025-04-04T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:27:08","slug":"beyond-welding-researchers-3d-print-a-single-complex-structure-containing-two-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/beyond-welding-researchers-3d-print-a-single-complex-structure-containing-two-metals","title":{"rendered":"Beyond welding: Researchers 3D-print a single complex structure containing two metals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beyond-welding-researchers-3d-print-a-single-complex-structure-containing-two-metals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Penn State researchers has used a new 3D-printing method to produce a complex metal build that was once only possible with welding: fusing two metals together into a single structure.<\/p>\n<p>Using an advanced additive manufacturing process known as multi-material laser powder bed fusion\u2014enabled by a newly acquired system in Penn State\u2019s Center for Innovative Materials Processing Through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D)\u2014the researchers printed a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/complex+structure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">complex structure<\/a> out of a blend of low-carbon stainless steel and bronze, which consists of 90% copper and 10% tin.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44334-025-00020-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> their approach in npj Advanced Manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Penn State researchers has used a new 3D-printing method to produce a complex metal build that was once only possible with welding: fusing two metals together into a single structure. Using an advanced additive manufacturing process known as multi-material laser powder bed fusion\u2014enabled by a newly acquired system in Penn State\u2019s Center [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210543","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}