Reshare Originally shared by Cristian Lorenzutti NANOSCRIBE - Micro 3D Printer Creates Tiny Structures in

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Originally shared by Cristian Lorenzutti

NANOSCRIBE - Micro 3D Printer Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds
[…]Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today. “If something took one hour to make, it now takes less than one minute,” says Michael Thiel, chief scientific officer at Nanoscribe.[…] Printing microstructures with features a few hundred nanometers in size could be useful for making heart stents, microneedles for painless shots, gecko adhesives, parts for microfluidics chips, and scaffolds for growing cells and tissue. Another important application could be in the electronics industry, where patterning nanoscale features on chips currently involves slow, expensive techniques. 3-D printing would quickly and cheaply yield polymer templates that could be used to make metallic structures.[…]

Full article: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/511856/micro-3-d-printer-creates-tiny-structures-in-seconds/
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@David_Fuchs something to put in your nanotech toolkit.

I want to use something similar to print micro cubes containing nanodevices, that can be assembled into complex electronics, disassembled and made into new devices… instant recycling, aka Anti-rep-rap

It would be great if this printer was somewhat affordable.

I was thinking of using this to print voxelized components, that are then printed into electronics,

So this just makes ink, you can then assemble the microcublets into complex electronics, then disassemble them add new cubes and print something else, Instant recycling… aka anti-rep-rap

They apparently have one at CalTech in SoCal, if people were interested in seeing it.