nanotechnology

America Makes, a US public-private partnership focused on additive manufacturing, and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) have announced two project calls worth a combined $25.6 million. The funding is split between the $12.4 million Maturation Initiative for Additive Metals Interchangeability (MIAMI) and the $13.2 million INtegrated System for In-situ Testing &#38…

Eplus3D, a manufacturer of industrial metal additive manufacturing systems, Rosswag Engineering, the additive manufacturing division of German metal processing company Rosswag GmbH, and qualloy, a supplier and marketplace for metal powders used in additive manufacturing, have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly advance next-generation metal additive manufacturing systems and supply ch…

Chromatic 3D Materials, a company developing additively manufactured elastomeric and propulsion materials, has announced successful prototype printing and static fire testing of its 3D printed rocket propellant at the Integrated Solutions for Systems (IS4S) test range in Opelika, Alabama. Tests showed the material sustained combustion pressures above 1,800 psi without structural failure, marking …

A new facility purpose-built for additive manufacturing has opened at the Bristol base of the British aerospace and defence company Rolls-Royce. The Additive Manufacturing Development Cell was inaugurated by Luke Pollard MP, Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, with Claire Hazelgrove MP also in attendance. Backed by UK Ministry of Defence funding, the cell is…

LTU Biomedical Engineering Student Elena Selik Selected for Elite Vanderbilt University program to Advance Nanotechnology Elena Selik is already operating in spaces most engineering students do not reach until much later in their academic careers. The Lawrence Technological University biomedical engineering sophomore has been selected for the Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Enginee…

ASML's Best Selling Product complex engineering meets human connection $400m Machine vs. $200 Toy There is a machine in the Netherlands that is essentially the heartbeat of the modern world. It’s called an Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool, and it’s built by ASML. Without these machines, we don’t have the high-end chips that power your iPhone, your AI models, or your data centers. Each u…

Nature Communications, Published online: 02 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72449-x The authors report a centimeter-scale untethered tripodal robot with three radial piezoelectric actuators for omnidirectional locomotion without attitude turning and cross-scale precision, enabling autonomous navigation and micro-macro inspection.

Researchers at Brno University of Technology have developed magnetic microbots that can remove nanoplastics from water via electrostatic attraction. They published their findings in Environmental Science: Nano.  Nanoplastics, plastic particles smaller than 100 nm, are considered more dangerous than microplastics because their size allows them to cross cell membranes. They have been detected in th…

A new Dalian University of Technology patent proposes heating fiber-reinforced thermoplastic filament from the inside instead of heating it with a conventional hot end. The post Self Heating Composite Filaments Could Simplify AM appeared on Fabbaloo .

Flashforge has patented a resin printing control method that watches force data to decide when each layer is actually ready. The post Flashforge Patent Watches Resin Forces Between Layers appeared on Fabbaloo .

Scientists have achieved a major step toward chip-scale ultraviolet light by converting red light into powerful UV within a tiny photonic device. Ultraviolet light, beyond what comes naturally from the sun, plays a central role in modern technology, including sterilization, biological imaging, and chip manufacturing. Researchers also expect tiny sources of UV light on photonic [...]

A research team led by Senior Researcher Dr. Jun Sae Han at the Nano Lithography and Manufacturing Research Center, Nano-Convergence Research Division, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM, President Seog-Hyeon Ryu), has proposed a roll-to-roll (R2R)-based direct roll lamination process.

Five undergraduate students from UWF's Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business collaborated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MBA program on a comprehensive feasibility study for SWARM Dynamics, an innovative startup focused on unmanned autonomous systems, or UAS.

MIT Researchers 3D Print Microscopic Robots That Snap to Attention With a Magnet Swipe April 29

In APL Bioengineering, researchers designed a force-sensing miniature robot, called a mobile microgripper, to handle cell spheroids with care. The MMG resembles the gripping part of the claw toy, made of two arms connected by a hinge for a controlled -- and gentle -- gripping. It's controlled by magnets, which are biocompatible with spheroids, decreasing the risk of collateral damage, and the gri…

Researchers developed 3D printed, muscle-inspired magnetic actuators that push, pull, crawl, and grasp. The post Muscle-Inspired Magnetic Actuators For 3D Printed Soft Robots appeared on Fabbaloo .

Research Microfluidics for material production We develop methods to create new functional materials using microfluidic devices. These devices provide capabilities for very precisely mixing fluids to form new materials. All the structures are based on drops which can both encapsulate active materials and serve as templates on which to build new structures. These have interesting...

Research Microfluidics We have two areas of focus in our microfluidics effort. The first is an effort to use microfluidic devices to create new materials. The second is an effort to use drops in microfluidic devices as reaction vessels for biology. Microfluidics for material production We develop methods to create new functional materials using microfluidic...

Nature Electronics, Published online: 27 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01626-z Two types of signal folding—for input signals and for weight conductance—can be implemented in molybdenum disulfide-based one-transistor–one-resistor arrays to decrease power consumption and improve weight precision in vector–matrix multiplication.