{"id":216821,"date":"2025-06-28T21:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/team-tackles-support-structure-bottlenecks-with-dual-wavelength-3d-printing"},"modified":"2025-06-28T21:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T02:13:36","slug":"team-tackles-support-structure-bottlenecks-with-dual-wavelength-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/team-tackles-support-structure-bottlenecks-with-dual-wavelength-3d-printing","title":{"rendered":"Team tackles support structure bottlenecks with dual-wavelength 3D printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-tackles-support-structure-bottlenecks-with-dual-wavelength-3d-printing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have developed a novel 3D printing technique that uses light to build complex structures, then cleanly dissolves the support material, expanding possibilities in multi-material additive manufacturing (AM).<\/p>\n<p>In 3D printing, traditional supports often add time, waste and risk to the process, especially when printing intricate parts. But in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1021\/acscentsci.5c00337\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in <i>ACS Central Science<\/i>, an LLNL team\u2014in collaboration with University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers\u2014outlines a \u201cone-pot\u201d printing approach that uses two light wavelengths to simultaneously create permanent structures and temporary supports from a single resin formulation.<\/p>\n<p>The method addresses a longstanding challenge in AM: how to fabricate suspended or overhanging features without cumbersome scaffolding requiring manual removal, which is a key hurdle to the widespread adoption of digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have developed a novel 3D printing technique that uses light to build complex structures, then cleanly dissolves the support material, expanding possibilities in multi-material additive manufacturing (AM). In 3D printing, traditional supports often add time, waste and risk to the process, especially when printing intricate parts. But in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216821","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\/216821","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}