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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Printing the Metals of the Future

Printing the Metals of the Future
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 30, 2014 - 3-D printers can create all kinds of things, from eyeglasses to implantable medical devices, straight from a computer model and without the need for molds. But for making spacecraft, engineers sometimes need custom parts that traditional manufacturing techniques and standard 3-D printers can't create, because they need to have the properties of multiple metals. Now, researchers at NASA's J ... morehttp://www.spacemart.com/reports/Printing_the_Metals_of_the_Future_999.html

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