A team at The Chinese University, Hong Kong (CUHK), working with Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a new approach to 3D printing, allowing ultra-fine (Nano) products to be produced with improved resolution, rate of production, and lower manufacturing costs in a variety of materials.
According to a press release by CUHK, a multi-disciplined research team headed by Professor Chen Shih-Chi of CUHK in conjunction with Professor Zhao Yongxin from Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has developed a 3D nanofabrication platform that, for the first time realizes multi-material fabrication, meaning it can use a great variety of materials, including metals, alloys, semiconductors, polymers, ceramics and biomaterials at a record-setting resolution of 20 nanometers, and a light patterning speed of 300 cubic millimeter/hour, three orders of magnitude faster than conventional serial fabrication systems that are currently used in the commercial world. The achievement has recently been published in the journal Science….