Faster printing could see the technology move from research labs to industry.
Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today. “If something took one hour to make, it now takes less than one minute,†says Michael Thiel, chief scientific officer at Nanoscribe.