Three-dimensional (3D) printing has been particularly widely adopted in medical fields. Application of the 3D printing technique has even been extended to bio-cell printing for 3D tissue/organ development, the creation of scaffolds for tissue engineering, and actual clinical application for various medical parts. Of various medical fields, craniofacial plastic surgery is one of areas that pione...

Introduction and Summary Over the past year, ISEN funding has been utilized to make significant research progress towards the fabrication of a fully 3D-printed iron/solid oxide fuel cell (Metallic/multi-ceramic) batterygenerator system (Figure 1). Monies have gone towards the partial funding of one grad student/postdoc, Adam Jakus, in Ramille Shah’s Tissue Engineering and Additive Manufacturing...

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Variable stiffness and variable damping can play an important role in robot movement, particularly for legged robots such as bipedal walkers. Variable impedance also introduces new control problems, since there are more degrees of freedom to control, and the resulting robot has more complex dynamics. In this paper, we introduce novel design and fabrication methodologies that are capable of prod...

Additive manufacturing (AM or “3D printing”) has become a powerful tool for the rapid prototyping and of complex part geometries. Especially interesting world particle accelerators is process 3D printing stainless steel (and copper) parts. We present first prototype 433 MHz IH-type linac cavity with an internal drift tube structure manufactured by metal printing. The been constructed to act as ...

Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a transformative technology with a potentially wide range of applications in the field of orthopaedic spine surgery. This article aims to review the current applications, limitations, and future developments of 3D printing technology in orthopaedic spine surgery. Current preoperative applications of 3D printing include construction of complex 3D anatomic model...

Although the extreme miniaturization of components in integrated circuits and biochemical chips has driven the development of various nanofabrication technologies, the 3D fabrication of nanoscale objects is still in its infancy. Here we propose a novel method to fabricate a free-standing nanowall by the precise, repetitive deposition of electrospun polymer nanofibers. We show that the electrifi...

and reconstruction plates and morphologic reconstruction of bony defect areas are possible uses of 3D printing in fracture surgery or reconstructive surgery. The 3D printing technique can also be utilized in other areas of oral and maxillofacial surgery. For example, it would be very helpful to be able to design and fabricate a customized non-absorbable barrier of titanium mesh. In addition, 3D...