Designing a 3D-printed structure is hard enough when the product is inches or feet in size. Imagine shrinking it smaller than a drop of water, smaller even than a human hair, until it is dwarfed by a common bacterium.
3D printing on the nanoscale
Self-healing diamond-like carbon
Fans of Superman surely recall how the “Man of Steel” used immense heat and pressure generated by his bare hands to form a diamond out of a lump of coal.
F-22 Acrobatics at RIAT Airshow in England
The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is the world’s largest military air show, held annually over the third weekend in July, usually at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England in support of The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust.
Chromium-aluminum PVD coating protects jet engine compressor vanes and seals
Wallwork Heat Treating Co., England, has developed Nitron CA, a PVD vacuum process in which a material comprised of chromium and aluminum bound with nitrogen is deposited on complex surfaces.
Norsk Titanium to build 3D printed parts for aerospace and deliver RPD machines to New York
Norsk Titanium, Norway, recently announced agreements with Mecachrome, Thales, Boeing, and the state of New York regarding its Rapid Plasma Deposition (RPD) additive manufacturing process. Norsk says that these titanium parts have strengths equivalent to those of forgings, but at lower cost and shorter design-to-market times.