Clipped to the Drawing Board by Pat Sheen
In a world where everything from mobile phones to computers, portable music players and all manner of instruments is getting smaller, engineers need new tools to predict how materials will behave when they are being processed or shaped at scales as subtle as their molecular make-up.
Fabrication of materials, particularly metals, at the level of atoms and molecules is the basis of nanotechnology – the new generation of micro-manufacturing – and it poses new challenges for engineers who need to be able to predict how materials will behave when worked on as molecules.
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Monday 28 April, 2008 10:10 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Future nanomanufacturing processes will rely on two basic principles: a combination of chemical synthesis and self-assembly on one hand and robotic nanofabrication on the other. While the former is a controlled 'natural' process relying on chemistry and self-organization principles of nature (read more: How falling spaghettis could lead to more complex nanotechnology self-assembly), the latter will be an industrial process similar in concept to today's automated manufacturing assembly lines.
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Saturday 26 April, 2008 10:13 AM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
They call it rapid manufacturing , and its progress has been slow, though steady, in gaining the acceptance of industry.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York currently has one of its periodic exhibits showcasing artifacts that make use of industrial engineering and commercial technology. It's called Design and the Elastic Mind. Objects and installations involve video, computers, nanotechnology, and various forms of manufacturing. One curious object is a handbag made of interlocking links that weave among each other, much like the endless knots that decorate old manuscripts.
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Monday 21 April, 2008 10:08 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William
Custom-Fit is an industry led project funded by the EC under Sixth Framework Programme , with the aim of creating a fully integrated system for the engineering, design, production and supply of individualised products using Rapid Manufacturing technologies. One objective of the project is to develop new production systems based on Additive Manufacturing technology for the manufacturing of customised products. The Metal Printing Process (MPP) is one of the processes developed under the project by the Norwegian research institute SINTEF.
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Saturday 12 April, 2008 02:06 PM |
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Clipped to the Drawing Board by Tony Elmasri
In 2007, Dr Babak Amir Parviz was chosen by the MIT Technology as one of the top engineering innovators under the age of 35, for developing the self-assembly manufacturing method.
The Genome Technology Magazine selected him as a star young genomics investigator. He has also received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
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Tuesday 8 April, 2008 10:08 AM |
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