Nanoscale Race Car Gets 3D Printed With a Laser

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 12, 2012 @07:33AM from the bet-the-insurance-is-high-on-that-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have managed to perfect 3D printing at the nanoscale. What may look like a grain of sand to the human eye could in fact be a detailed racing car model, a reproduction of a famous church, or London Bridge. The 3D printer relies on a laser beam directed by mirrors through a liquid resin onto a surface. It can print at 5 meters per second, which is a world record, and the end result is only a few hundred nanometers in size. The next hurdle: printing with bio-material so we can start making our own body parts/organs."

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Here's your car analogy by oodaloop · 2012-03-12 07:44 · Score: 3, Funny

It's like they made a little car!

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Why a car? by Nidi62 · 2012-03-12 08:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Why make a tiny car when they could have actually printed the world's tiniest violin?

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