3D printing nickel (IMAGE)

National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

3D printing nickel

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(Left) Laser beam being irradiated on the powder bed and the resulting cylindrical single-crystalline objects produced. (Right) A flat-top laser beam can be applied to form crystals aligned in the same orientation while the application of a conventional Gaussian laser beam results in less oriented crystalline grains.

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Tomonori Kitashima National Institute for Materials Science KITASHIMA.Tomonori@nims.go.jp

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