{"id":229525,"date":"2026-01-21T21:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/laser-speed-in-3d-printing-tunes-atomic-structure-of-high-entropy-alloys"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T03:15:43","slug":"laser-speed-in-3d-printing-tunes-atomic-structure-of-high-entropy-alloys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/laser-speed-in-3d-printing-tunes-atomic-structure-of-high-entropy-alloys","title":{"rendered":"Laser speed in 3D printing tunes atomic structure of high-entropy alloys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-speed-in-3d-printing-tunes-atomic-structure-of-high-entropy-alloys.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next-generation technology requires next-generation materials that can be tailored to exact mission requirements. Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, has already revolutionized industries like aerospace engineering by enabling previously unthinkable component designs. However, this technique has been largely limited to pre-existing metallic alloys. This is due to the inherent complexity of the process that leads to far-from-equilibrium microstructures and results in mechanical properties that are hard to predict.<\/p>\n<p><b>New research on alloy microstructures<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/adma.202508659\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and their collaborators demonstrate a method to overcome the challenges of the traditional additive manufacturing process. By adjusting the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2022-05-insights-3d-metals.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">speed of the laser<\/a> in a compositionally complex alloy (also called high-entropy alloy), the team discovered a method to guide how the atoms settle as the metal solidifies, controlling the material\u2019s properties directly at the atomic scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next-generation technology requires next-generation materials that can be tailored to exact mission requirements. Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, has already revolutionized industries like aerospace engineering by enabling previously unthinkable component designs. However, this technique has been largely limited to pre-existing metallic alloys. This is due to the inherent complexity of the process that leads to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229525","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=229525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}