Tossing titanium powder into 3D printing hands out heaps of perks—drives its hot streak. Its tiny grains slide smooth in print layers—lands clean, top-grade goods with few flubs. Its brawn-to-light ...

Andrew Iams saw something strange while looking through his electron microscope. He was examining a sliver of a new aluminum ...

Quasicrystals, once considered impossible, were found in a 3D-printed aluminum alloy – and they make it stronger. This could ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered something surprising that could ...

In 2017, a team at HRL Laboratories, based in California, and UC Santa Barbara discovered a high-strength aluminum alloy that could be 3D printed. They found that adding zirconium to the aluminum ...

To find out how long 3D-printed metal parts are likely to last in the field, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is providing up to $10.3M to a University of Michigan-led team.

Scientists have discovered a rare and powerful crystal hidden inside a 3D-printed aluminum alloy. This unusual crystal, ...

Cobra leads the way in golf when it comes to employing 3D printing in its club designs. It started several years ago in their putter lineup, where intricate structural latticework within the heads of ...

Pratt & Whitney is rolling out a new additive-manufacturing repair process for PW1000G geared turbofans (GTFs) and revealed a major expansion of GTF maintenance capacity through a partnership with ...

The University of Michigan leads a DARPA initiative to predict the lifespan of LPBF 3D-printed metal parts, ensuring quality ...

The quasicrystals found in this study form the corners of 20-sided shape called an icosahedron. To prove that he found an icosahedron, Andrew Iams had ...