{"id":34983,"date":"2017-03-01T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T00:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/3d-printing-with-high-performance-carbon-fiber"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:47:47","slug":"3d-printing-with-high-performance-carbon-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/3d-printing-with-high-performance-carbon-fiber","title":{"rendered":"3D printing with high-performance carbon fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfFpd4ZQ0Ic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have become the first to 3D print aerospace-grade carbon fiber composites, opening the door to greater control and optimization of the lightweight, yet stronger than steel material.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published by the journal <i>Nature Scientific Reports<\/i> online on Feb. 28, represents a \u201csignificant advance\u201d in the development of micro-extrusion 3D printing techniques for carbon fiber, the authors reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mantra is \u2018if you could make everything out of carbon fiber, you would\u2019\u2014it\u2019s potentially the ultimate material,\u201d explained Jim Lewicki, principal investigator and the paper\u2019s lead author. \u201cIt\u2019s been waiting in the wings for years because it\u2019s so difficult to make in complex shapes. But with 3D printing, you could potentially make anything out of carbon fiber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2017-03-d-high-performance-carbon-fiber.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2017&#45;03-d-high-performance-carbon-fiber.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have become the first to 3D print aerospace-grade carbon fiber composites, opening the door to greater control and optimization of the lightweight, yet stronger than steel material. The research, published by the journal Nature Scientific Reports online on Feb. 28, represents a \u201csignificant advance\u201d in the development of micro-extrusion [\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-34983","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\/34983","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=34983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48652,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34983\/revisions\/48652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}