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3D printing with liquid metals While 3D printers of today are basically limited to plastics and resins, the holy grail of desktop fabrication is printing with metal. While we won’t be printing out steel objects on a desktop printer just yet, [Collin Ladd], [Ju-Hee So], [John Muth], and [Michael D. Dickey] from North Carolina State University are slowly working up to that by printing objects with tiny spheres of liquid metal. The medium the team is using for their metallic 3D prints is an alloy of 75% gallium and 25% indium. This alloy is liquid at room temperatures, but when exposed to an oxygen … Read the rest bit.ly/11y5shl #Tech #Technology #News #Updates #Like #Follow #Comment
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:08:46 +0000

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