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MIT Develops Shock-Absorbing 3D-Printed Material

2016 10/07

MIT`s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) researchers have developed a new method for 3D printing soft materials with precisely controlled shock-aborbing properties. A group of CSAIL researchers realized that 3D printing could be used to precisely engineer the shock-absorbing properties of a material, providing specific damping levels for particular applications.

[It`s hard to customize soft objects using existing fabrication methods, since you need to do injection moulding or some other industrial process," said researcher Jeffrey Lipton. [3D printing opens up more possibilities and lets us ask the question, `can we make things we couldn`t make before?`"

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