If you’re interested in printing on metal, you now have a new process that you can use. A high speed printing process for functionally graded materials has been developed through a project of the Norwegian Research Institute SINTEF.
The overall project is based on additive manufacturing technology and has a goal of developing new production systems, of which the metal printing process is only one. It is designed to be the equivalent to having a high speed, 3D printer. That printer then produces a solid metal, freeform, three-dimensional object from powder materials, and does this directly. It’s based on LED or laser printer technology and conventional powder metallurgy, both of which are relatively complex. Different powders can be printed in the same layer, and they can also progressively change from one material to the next, which gives a functionally graded material as the result.
The technology also works with any of the commercially available powders out there today, so there’s no reason why you would have to get different powders just to use the new technology.
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