{"id":89970,"date":"2019-04-25T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T01:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/researchers-use-3d-printer-to-print-glass"},"modified":"2019-04-25T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T01:03:14","slug":"researchers-use-3d-printer-to-print-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/researchers-use-3d-printer-to-print-glass","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use 3D printer to print glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-3d-printer-to-print-glass2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, researchers have successfully 3D printed chalcogenide glass, a unique material used to make optical components that operate at mid-infrared wavelengths. The ability to 3D print this glass could make it possible to manufacture complex glass components and optical fibers for new types of low-cost sensors, telecommunications components and biomedical devices.<\/p>\n<p>In The Optical Society (OSA) journal <em>Optical Materials Express<\/em>, researchers from the Centre d\u2019Optique, Photonique et Laser (COPL) at Universit\u00e9 Laval in Canada, Patrick Larochelle and his colleagues, describe how they modified a commercially available 3D printer for glass extrusion. The new method is based on the commonly used technique of fused deposition modeling, in which a plastic filament is melted and then extruded layer-by-layer to create detailed 3D objects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c3D printing of optical materials will pave the way for a new era of designing and combining materials to produce the photonic components and fibers of the future,\u201d said Yannick Ledemi, a member of the research team. \u201cThis new method could potentially result in a breakthrough for efficient manufacturing of infrared optical components at a low cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/04\/190418131404.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, researchers have successfully 3D printed chalcogenide glass, a unique material used to make optical components that operate at mid-infrared wavelengths. The ability to 3D print this glass could make it possible to manufacture complex glass components and optical fibers for new types of low-cost sensors, telecommunications components and biomedical devices. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89970","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}