Polycaprolactone with Glass Beads for 3D Printing Filaments

Fabrication of Composite Filaments with High Dielectric Permittivity for Fused Deposition 3D Printing

Additive manufacturing of complex structures with spatially varying electromagnetic properties can enable new applications in high-technology sectors such as communications and sensors. This work presents the fabrication method as well as microstructural and dielectric characterization of bespoke composite filaments for fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing of microwave devices with a hig...

Retailing with 3D Printing

Autocomplete Textures for 3D Printing

Texture is an essential property of physical objects that affects aesthetics, usability, and functionality. However, designing and applying textures to 3D objects with existing tools remains difficult and time-consuming; it requires proficient 3D modeling skills. To address this, we investigated an auto-completion approach for efficient texture creation that automates the tedious, repetitive pr...

3D-Printing for Analytical Ultracentrifugation

Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) is a classical technique of physical biochemistry providing information on size, shape, and interactions of macromolecules from the analysis of their migration in centrifugal fields while free in solution. A key mechanical element in AUC is the centerpiece, a component of the sample cell assembly that is mounted between the optical windows to allow imaging a...

Path optimizing for 3D printing

In the 3D printing process, the 3D CAD model is built in CAD system and sliced into a series of 2D slices. The 2D cross section data contains a lot of unnecessary idle running. If transform the original data into processing path code directly, the processing efficiency will be significantly reduced. A path optimization algorithm is developed in this paper. The minimum spanning tree strategy is ...