You can print in titanium using Direct Metal Laser Sintering. You can pretty much print with any material you can turn into a powder or resin. A friend of mine (papers below) even used a NaCl mixture to 3D print tissue scaffolding.
Computer-aided tissue engineering: benefiting from the control over scaffold micro-architecture.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22692601
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-- Scaffold pore space modulation through intelligent design of dissolvable microparticles.
Computer-aided tissue engineering of a human vertebral body.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
I've never heard anyone on here discussing printable hip
replacements... it sounds like a bad idea anyway, seeing as how poor
3D printer plastics fair in strength. Most joint replacements are made
of titanium, etc... Who put that in there?
It also has really old info scattered throughout, and doesn't mention
anything of the years of FBI interaction we've had
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> wrote:
> The wikipedia articles are still awful.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohacking
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIYbio
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopunk
>
> At least that last one is somewhat less awful. Anyone want to take cleanup
> duty?
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
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