Can Physicists Prove to Engineers That 3D-Printed Metal Parts Are Safe?
There’s no denying that 3D printing is a fast and effective way to build new objects, but most engineers are taking tentative steps to its mass adoption because the results aren’t proven to be truly robust. Now, physicists hope to convince them once and for all.
I could believe in 3D printed metal…
“What Jim Tour down in Houston discovered and showed is that anything that’s got carbon in it you can turn into graphene.
And to demonstrate that he meant anything, he did it with Girl Scout cookies. He turned those into graphene. He did it with chocolate. He got some chocolate half-dollar coins. He did it with dog feces from a miniature Dachshund, and he did it with a cockroach leg. And essentially he just got a really big oven, heated it up to about 1,000 degrees C and filled that oven with a little bit of this stuff, the cockroach or the dog feces, whatever, and a sheet of pure copper and a little bit of gas, left it for about 20 minutes, and viola, he’d made little bits of really high-quality graphene.”
Keyword here is “little bits” but this will always crack me up.
What.
