Nanotechnology is the study of the control of matter at the atomic and molecular level, and is focused mainly on the creation of materials and equipment to work within that scale. One thing holding back the advancement of this technology is the lack of experimental tools capable of visualizing nanoprocesses in real time across their full range of...

Manufacturing processes utilizing filament deposition techniques have been developed for rapid and flexible prototyping of three-dimensional objects. The leading technique in the industry is the Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). FDM is a process in which it deposits a thin filament on a base to progressively shape an object. However, due to a fixed-size...

Manufacturing processes utilizing deposition techniques have been developed for rapid and flexible prototyping of three-dimensional parts and tooling. Metals are typically deposited on a surface through thermal spray or weld deposition techniques. A newer technique, drop generation, deposits liquid metal from a nozzle onto the substrate. However,...