Chemical engineering researchers have overcome the challenge of designing such properly self-aligning structures by using fluid mechanics, chemo-mechanical processes -- and a little stickiness.

In 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama declared that 3D printing holds “the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.” But for the average person, when 3D printed objects come to ...

Imagine performing a sweep around an object with your smartphone and getting a realistic, fully editable 3D model that you can view from any angle -- this is fast becoming reality, thanks to advances ...

A couple of years ago, Alex Yu and Amit Jain came together to found a company that’d let people capture objects in 3D using their smartphones — no additional equipment required. At the time, Yu was an ...