A friend of mine and I both have a similar project in mind, the manufacture of custom footwear with our hackerspace’s shiny new multi-material 3D printer. It seems like a match made in heaven, a ...

For some time, the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printing sector has been attempting to develop a dependable means for printing rubber-like filaments into desired shapes. The effort to establish ...

Natural rubber has been in use for generations in many different applications, from tyres to coatings and latex gloves. It is obtained commercially mainly from the Hevea brasiliensis, also known as ...

We generally think of 3D printed components as being hard bits of plastic, because for the most part, that’s what we’ve got loaded up in our desktop machines. But outside of the normal PLA, PETG, and ...

Among the latest materials-related business developments in liquid silicone rubber, ACEO is launching new fluorosilicone versions of its LSR 3D printing materials. The ACEO business unit of Burghausen ...

German 3D printing company Voxeljet A.G. began beta programs with Tier 1 automotive suppliers and material suppliers to test its new VX1000 HSS 3D printer for volume production of additive polymer ...

Virginia Tech researchers have discovered a novel process to 3-D print latex rubber, unlocking the ability to print a variety of elastic materials with complex geometric shapes. Latex, commonly known ...

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Shoes will invariably wear out with enough use, but scientists might have found a way to delay the shopping trip for their replacements. A USC team has created a self-healing 3D-printed rubber that ...

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi examine why silicone additive manufacturing, FDA compliance, and PFAS-free materials ...