Speeding Up the Impact of Innovation
Published on September 28, 2017For the past 25 years, 3-D printing technology has remained limited in that objects must be built or printed one layer at a time.
For the past 25 years, 3-D printing technology has remained limited in that objects must be built or printed one layer at a time.
For the past 25 years, 3-D printing technology has remained limited in that objects must be built or printed one layer at a time. But a fundamentally new approach —developed by a Silicon Valley startup and UNC researchers — enables objects to rise continuously from liquid media.
Carbon’s new technology enables ready-to-use products to be made 25 to 100 times faster than other methods and creates previously unachievable geometries that open opportunities for innovation not only in health care and medicine, but also in other major industries such as automotive and aviation.
Carbon was cofounded by Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at UNC; Alex Ermoshkin, Chief Technology Officer at Carbon; and Edward T. Samulski, Cary Boshamer Professor of Chemistry and chair of the UNC Department of Applied Physical Sciences.
