New Space and Tech

Printing 3D Objects at Nano Scales

By Keith Cowing
April 8, 2013
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3D-Printer with Nano-Precision (with video), Vienna University of Technology

“Printing three dimensional objects with incredibly fine details is now possible using “two-photon lithography”. With this technology, tiny structures on a nanometer scale can be fabricated. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) have now made a major breakthrough in speeding up this printing technique: The high-precision-3D-printer at TU Vienna is orders of magnitude faster than similar devices (see video). This opens up completely new areas of application, such as in medicine.”

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