Northwestern Unveils New 3D printing method: DIAL, a Hybrid Method for Functional Materials

## Northwestern Unveils New 3D printing method: DIAL, a Hybrid Method for Functional Materials

Northwestern University engineers have developed a 3D printing method called direct ink additive lithography (DIAL). It prints a porous grid in 30 minutes, a part that took 124 minutes with conventional extrusion, and the printed parts have sharper features and fewer defects. The work, published in Science Advances, combines two processes that usually force a…