{"id":317691,"date":"2026-02-26T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317691\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:11:07","slug":"quick-as-a-blink-chinese-scientists-unveil-3d-printing-in-under-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317691\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick as a blink: Chinese scientists unveil 3D printing in under a second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have developed a new technique that solidifies liquid into three-dimensional objects in under a second, making for the world\u2019s fastest <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/3d-printing?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3D printing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">3D printing is no longer a novel concept \u2013 whether it is tech enthusiasts creating digital objects, metal printing conducted in space, customised bone structures for patients or even military units using 3D-printed parts for weapon repairs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, these technologies still rely on mechanical scanning by a printing nozzle, building objects layer by layer over minutes or even hours. In some cases, improving precision slows down the process.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They placed the printing material inside a transparent container and, with the flip of a switch, transformed it into a solid structure in less than a second using a holographic projection.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This method, somewhere between carving and printing, achieved both high speed and high precision, printing millimetre-scale components in just 0.6 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists have developed a new technique that solidifies liquid into three-dimensional objects in under a second, making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1836,148101,30551,148102,61,60,84884,3738,148100,82,148099,148103,33965,27593],"class_list":{"0":"post-317691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-3d-printing","9":"tag-biocompatible-materials","10":"tag-chinese-scientists","11":"tag-holographic-projection","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-microrobots","15":"tag-nature","16":"tag-photosensitive-material","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-squid-statuette","19":"tag-theodoric","20":"tag-tissue-engineering","21":"tag-tsinghua-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}