3-D printed sugar scaffolds offer sweet solution for device manufacturing

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — University of Illinois engineers built a 3-D printer that offers a sweet solution to making detailed structures that commercial 3-D printers can’t: Rather than a layer-upon-layer solid shell, it produces a delicate network of thin ribbons of hardened isomalt, the type of sugar alcohol used to make throat lozenges. The water-soluble, biodegradable … Continue reading 3-D printed sugar scaffolds offer sweet solution for device manufacturing