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Nature-inspired 3D-printing method shoots up faster than bamboo

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A simple, energy-efficient 3D-printing process takes its cues from trees to manufacture polymers quickly and inexpensively.

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology researchers' new 3D printing process speeds past existing methods -- at a snail's pace.

Process mimics tree trunks' outward expansion to print polymer parts quickly and efficiently without molds and expensive equipment.

The process is "simple and highly marketable" and hopes it can one day be used to create large polymer-based products like wind turbine blades.

The project is funded through the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences program.

"The Illinois culture of collaborative excellence shines bright," says first author Yun Seong Kim .

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