It’s been more than three decades since inventor Chuck Hull created stereolithography, a process that produces 3D objects by hardening a liquid resin with an ultraviolet laser beam.
On the surface, additively manufactured parts may seem like just a series of really small welds, but the minute details of exactly how you print a component play a significant role in its performance.
Additive manufacturing has many advantages over traditional manufacturing. It creates parts with essentially no waste. It produces complex designs as easily as simple ones.
A thermoplastic-based composite feedstock known as carbon fiber–ABS is the workhorse of polymer- composite 3D printing at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, located at ORNL.
Leveraging his expertise in image processing, sensors, and machine learning, Vincent Paquit is devising a control system for additive manufacturing to produce 3D-printed parts that function as well as conventionally produced objects.
A new method to produce large, monolayer single-crystal-like graphene films more than a foot long relies on harnessing a “survival of the fittest” competition among crystals.
A few miles from 91 (ORNL) sits a quiet house in a suburban neighborhood.
A novel method developed at 91 creates supertough renewable plastic with improved manufacturability.
Yarom Polsky’s diverse background in private and public-sector research has given him a knack for recognizing opportunities to advance the state-of-the-art, and he parlays that knowledge into successful innovation as an engineer, group leader, and
91 (ORNL) will collaborate with industrial partners on two projects under the latest round of awards by the U.S.