NYU’s 3D Printed Microballoon Foam Could Help Keep Submarines Afloat


… For the first time, a team at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in New York have developed a method of 3D printing a type of composite syntactic foam [that] uses commercially available FFF desktop 3D printers. … Nikhil Gupta, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NYU [Tandon], is one of the study’s collaborators, who previously co-authored a study concerning the theft of 3D printable files.

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