{"id":33669,"date":"2017-01-20T23:05:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T07:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/3d-printing-on-the-nanoscale-3d-laser-lithography-produces-improved-micro-and-nano-optics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:54:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:54:51","slug":"3d-printing-on-the-nanoscale-3d-laser-lithography-produces-improved-micro-and-nano-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/3d-printing-on-the-nanoscale-3d-laser-lithography-produces-improved-micro-and-nano-optics","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing on the Nanoscale: 3D Laser Lithography Produces Improved Micro- and Nano-Optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printing-on-the-nanoscale-3d-laser-lithography-produces-improved-micro-and-nano-optics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The things that can be done with 3D printing never cease to amaze. To the casual observer with only a passing knowledge of the technology, it appears on the surface to be an interesting method of producing plastic odds and ends, and sometimes metal parts \u2013 but 3D printing is so much more, as anyone who follows the progression of the technology on a regular basis knows. The things it is capable of producing are often hard to wrap one\u2019s mind around \u2013 especially when you look at 3D printing on the nanoscale.<\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists from Lithuania, France and Australia are busy studying 3D printing on a very small scale. As a newly published paper entitled \u201cOptically Clear and Resilient Free-Form \u03bc-Optics 3D-Printed via Ultrafast Laser Lithography\u201d explains, 3D printing is capable of creating functional objects that are impossible to produce via conventional manufacturing techniques, and structures at the miniature, micro- and nanoscales are no exception.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/3dprint.com\/162375\/3d-laser-lithography-nanoscale\/\">https:\/\/3dprint.com\/162375\/3d-laser-lithography-nanoscale\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The things that can be done with 3D printing never cease to amaze. To the casual observer with only a passing knowledge of the technology, it appears on the surface to be an interesting method of producing plastic odds and ends, and sometimes metal parts \u2013 but 3D printing is so much more, as anyone [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33669","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59050,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33669\/revisions\/59050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}