{"604448":{"#nid":"604448","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four-in-one 3D printer paves way for custom-made robots, phones ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA prototype 3D printer has for the first time combined several printing methods to enable researchers to produce devices out of multiple materials in a single print run. So far the machine has created basic electronic devices, but the technology brings materials scientists a step closer to their goal of printing complex equipment such as robots or smartphones.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe printer is being presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 21 March.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Each printing technology has its own limitations,\u0026rdquo; says Jerry Qi, a materials scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, who led the design of the multimaterial printer. \u0026ldquo;We put four 3D-printing technologies under one platform.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-03446-4?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20180330\u0026amp;spMailingID=56297300\u0026amp;spUserID=MjA1NjAyMzY3OQS2\u0026amp;spJobID=1364581530\u0026amp;spReportId=MTM2NDU4MTUzMAS2\u0022\u003ERead the article featured in \u003Cem\u003ENature\u003C\/em\u003E journal here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":" Experimental device is one of the first to combine multiple printing techniques in one machine"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2018-03-29 15:38:43","changed_gmt":"2018-03-29 15:38:43","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"604446":{"id":"604446","type":"image","title":"3-D printed prosthetic limbs","body":null,"created":"1522337596","gmt_created":"2018-03-29 15:33:16","changed":"1522337596","gmt_changed":"2018-03-29 15:33:16","alt":"","file":{"fid":"230409","name":"3D printed prosthetics.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/3D%20printed%20prosthetics.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/3D%20printed%20prosthetics.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":67505,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/3D%20printed%20prosthetics.jpg?itok=zpUrN7FM"}}},"media_ids":["604446"],"groups":[{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"},{"id":"39521","name":"Robotics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKelly B. Smith, kelly.smith@gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kelly.smith@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}