Museums are experiencing an increased presence of 3D printed objects in collections and higher instances of use in preservation activities, amplifying the critical need for preservation guidelines and ...

Art, sculptures and even mass-produced objects are often built to last. Ancient Greek sculptures from thousands of years ago may have lost their color (and sometimes a few limbs) but are otherwise in ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The ability to control a material's properties at the nanoscale underlies many remarkable structures in nature. Seashells achieve their strength through precise arrangements of ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers and chemists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Meta have developed a new kind of 3D-printed material capable of replicating characteristics of biological ...

A 3D-printed material that glows when a force is applied to it could be used to better understand how objects break. Xuhui Xu at the Kunming University of Science and Technology in China and his ...