Carbon based materials, one of the most popular members of 3D material range, provides service in various forms from filament to resin. Updated continuously, carbon solves many problems thanks to its advantages.
Since additive manufacturing market gets bigger, material development projects accelerate. In that sense, carbon based materials, is one of the most preferred supporters of this technology. Carbon based material especially offers convenience in ink production for bio-printing.
And, when it comes to composites, one of the most important for the manufacturing industry is carbon fiber–reinforced materials. Carbon fiber reinforcement can provide added strength to a part while maintaining a lighter weight, making it a cost-effective alternative to metals like titanium. In turn, the material is used in areas in which weight and strength are of critical importance, such as in the aerospace or performance automotive industries.
Carbon based 3D printing service gives you the ideal material for producing designs where high strength and low weight are paramount. Parts produced in this material also offer good detail and the ‘Black’ colour gives a very nice aesthetic look and feel to your printed designs. For designs where the ultimate strength of Carbon isn’t required we offer a lower priced Graphite option.
A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material, a sponge-like configuration with a density of just 5 percent, can have a strength 10 times that of steel.
In its two-dimensional form, graphene is thought to be the strongest of all known materials. But researchers until now have had a hard time translating that two-dimensional strength into useful three-dimensional materials.
The new findings show that the crucial aspect of the new 3-D forms has more to do with their unusual geometrical configuration than with the material itself, which suggests that similar strong, lightweight materials could be made from a variety of materials by creating similar geometric features
Graphene has the potential to completely revolutionise circuit boards as we know them.Scientists have developed a graphene-based ink, and due to its conductive abilities this means that electronic circuits can be printed onto a wide variety of materials. This was demonstrated by a research team at Cambridge University who printed an electrical piano device onto a piece of fabric using graphene-based ink. Conductive inks already exist in the form of metals such as silver, but these are very expensive to produce. Graphene based inks would be a great deal cheaper and offer far better electrical conductivity.