{"id":271046,"date":"2017-02-06T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/02\/170206155750.htm"},"modified":"2017-02-06T16:57:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:57:50","slug":"mimicking-natures-cellular-architectures-via-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=271046","title":{"rendered":"Mimicking nature’s cellular architectures via 3D printing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nature does amazing things with limited design materials.\u00a0Grass, for example,\u00a0can support its\u00a0own weight, resist strong wind loads, and recover after being compressed.\u00a0The plant\u2019s hardiness comes from a combination of its\u00a0hollow, tubular\u00a0macrostructure\u00a0and\u00a0porous, or cellular,\u00a0microstructure.\u00a0These\u00a0architectural\u00a0features\u00a0work together to give\u00a0grass\u00a0its robust\u00a0mechanical\u00a0properties.\u00a0Inspired by\u00a0natural\u00a0cellular\u00a0structures, researchers have developed a new method to 3D print materials with independently tunable\u00a0macro-and microscale porosity using a ceramic foam ink. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nature does amazing things with limited design materials. Grass, for example, can support its own weight, resist strong wind loads, and recover after being compressed. The plant’s hardiness comes from a combination of its hollow, tubular macrostructure and porous, or cellular, microstructure. These architectural features work together to give grass its robust mechanical properties. Inspired by natural cellular structures, researchers have developed a new method to 3D print materials with independently tunable macro-and microscale porosity using a ceramic foam ink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271047,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271046\/revisions\/271047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}