Quasicrystals, once considered impossible, were found in a 3D-printed aluminum alloy – and they make it stronger. This could ...

Researchers have found special atomic patterns called quasicrystals in 3D-printed aluminum alloys. Quasicrystals increase the strength of 3D-printed aluminum, the researchers discovered, making it ...

In 2017, a team at HRL Laboratories, based in California, and UC Santa Barbara discovered a high-strength aluminum alloy that could be 3D printed. They found that adding zirconium to the aluminum ...

The quasicrystals found in this study form the corners of 20-sided shape called an icosahedron. To prove that he found an icosahedron, Andrew Iams had ...

3D printing creates shapes that would be impossible with ... When Iams looked at the crystals from just the right angle, he saw that they had fivefold rotational symmetry. That means there are five ...

A 2D shape could have line symmetry or rotation symmetry, or both! 3D shapes are described by their faces, edges and vertices. The faces can be the same shape or different, and a 3D shape could ...

Most exciting of all, however, is the ability to create custom 3D objects in InZOI by uploading ... After the asset is generated, the rotation and translation matter. Imagine the grey surface ...

This 3D printer builds objects by melting a fine metal powder ... he saw that they had fivefold rotational symmetry. That means there are five ways to rotate the crystal around an axis so that it ...