Future Fabrication at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms

If you are technology and science nerd you have to see this tour of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms.

This is the place where some amazing tech is being developed for real world application purposes.
You will see some advanced gene editing, micron level 3d imaging, and manipulation, micron level laser cutters, molecular assemblers and nano machines.  


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Part 2




Some very very cool stuff kids!!!


MIT Center for Bits and Atoms homepage:

http://cba.mit.edu/

Source:

https://youtube.com/user/testedcom

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Cytosurge FluidFM µ3Dprinter is world’s first sub-micron metal 3D printer

Cytosurge AG, based in Zurich Switzerland, presents their revolutionary FluidFM µ3Dprinter which is world’s first 3D sub-micron direct metal printing machine.

This 3D printer could be used as an advanced tool for development of many new scientific and engineering applications from biology to nanorobotics.
It is one of the first steps towards practical manufacturing of parts for nanobots floating in your body to repair the damaged cells.







From the video description:

At the forefront of nanotechnology, additive manufacturing, life sciences and single cell biology, Cytosurge FluidFM µ3Dprinter is the world’s first 3D printer capable of delivering sub-micron resolution in direct metal printing, while offering scalability and good prospects in both production cost and speed.

The FluidFM technology opens a new world for metal object manufacturing and enables research opportunities in fields such as microelectronics, semiconductors, surface modification, microbots, sensors, material science and many other fields. Virtually any design can be offered to the system, including overhanging structures with 90 degree angles, without support structures or post processing steps.

High-precision surface modification processes can also be executed by printing ultra-thin or structured objects and by depositing multiple metals at the target surface. With the FluidFM µ3Dprinter various metals like Cu, Ag, Au, Pt can be printed.

The printing of other metals (Sn, Cd, Cr, Ni etc.) and various alloys are under investigation.

Company homepage:

https://www.cytosurge.com/page/micro3dprinting

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Advancements in nano scale 3d printing by Jan Torgersen of TU Wien

It is not 3d printing if it 's not nano scale 3d printing.



From video description:

After his studies in mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, Jan Torgersen started his phd work at the Insitute of Materials Science and Technology. Jan's field is Additive Manufacturing Technologies; the technology involved in 3D printing. He developed a new printer that is able to produce nano-scaled objects suitable for numerous applications in photonics, surface modifications and biomedical engineering. This printer is currently the fastest of its kind and brings the technology closer to industrial applications. How it works got illustrated recently by a video that went around the world, showing the construction of a racing car model in the scale of a human hair.

In the video, a race car with dimensions of 330x130x100µm3 is fabricated. The structure consists of 100 layers, each made of an average of 200 polymer lines. It is finished in 4 minutes and resembles the CAD file at a precision of ±1µm.

More details on TU Wien page:

http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_detail/article/7444/

Here is Korean concept for 3d printing nanobots:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/09/3d-printing-nanobots.html

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3d printing nanobots

... because they ain't going to make themselves ... oh wait ...
... anyway, it is better not to make them self-replicating ... you know ... Grey Goo scenario ...





Video by: http://www.youtube.com/user/profahn?feature=watch

http://fab.snu.ac.kr/

Here are some updates on real nano scale 3d printing:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/01/advancements-in-nano-scale-3d-printing.html

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