Topic

Construction 3D Printing

Additive manufacturing at building scale, in which pastes, concretes or other extrudable mixes are deposited layer by layer from a digital model instead of being poured into formwork.

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Yeast glue and gelatin freeze-dry into a Mars building material as strong as low-grade concrete

Jishen Qiu's team let Mars-like cold and vacuum do the hardening, printing cork-sized domes with the compressive strength of low-grade concrete. The imported gelatin and yeast are what the method still costs.

Publishers:discovermagazine.comphys.org

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