The rapid technical evolution of additive manufacturing (AM) enables a new path to a
circular economy using distributed recycling and production. This concept of Distributed …

The field of biology has seen tremendous technological progress in recent years, fuelled by
the exponential growth in processing power and high‐level computing, and the rise of global …

Abstract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) threatens to overwhelm our medical
infrastructure at the regional level causing spikes in mortality rates because of shortages of …

The recent development of the RepRap, an open-source self-replicating rapid prototyper,
has made 3-D polymer-based printers readily available to the public at low costs (< $500) …

As the number of prosumer printers has expanded rapidly, they now make up the majority of
the 3-D printer market and of these printers those in the open-source lineage of the RepRap …

This article outlines the evolution of additive manufacturing technology, culminating in 3D
printing and presents a vision of how this evolution is affecting existing global value chains …

Titanium dioxide, first manufactured a century ago, is significant in industry due to its
chemical inertness, low cost, and availability. The white mineral has a wide range of …

Nowadays, the low recycling rate of polymers is still a challenge to humankind due to
energy, economic and logistical issues. In the context of additive manufacturing, there is an …

Fused particle fabrication (FPF)(or fused granular fabrication (FGF)) has potential for
increasing recycled polymers in 3-D printing. Here, the open source Gigabot X is used to …

The introduction of affordable, consumer-oriented 3-D printers is a milestone in the current
“maker movement,” which has been heralded as the next industrial revolution. Combined …