NEWS AND REVIEWS

NEWS AND
REVIEWS
JANUARY 2014
Increasing Demand in the Medical Industry for 3D Printing
Market growth driven by investments in R&D
The global market for 3D printing has
a huge growth potential, especially in
market segments where applications
demand highly complex part geometries or a high degree of individualization. For medical applications, 3D
printing is expected to grow at 15.4%
CAGR from 2013 to hit 965.5 USD
in 2019, as a recent market research
study found out*. The growth is fueled
by an increase in investments made in
R&D for 3D printing technologies.
BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
For applications in bioengineering,
the high-resolution 3D printing of
Nanoscribe’s Photonic Professional GT
which is based on two-photon polymerization enables freedom of design
on the microscale. It allows both, additive as well as subtractive manufacturing of polymers on a broad range
of substrates and materials. Complex
structures with feature sizes down
to 200 nm can be realized. The systems are often used for the manufacturing of micro-sized parts, e.g. cell
cages, micro-needles or helical micro
swimmers for cargo transport. Typical scientific topics of interest are the
study of biomimetics, cell migration
or stem cell differentiation, where
the 3D tailored environment acts as
an artificial extracellular matrix. For
example: In a recent publication**,
the group of Prof. Martin Bastmeyer
(KIT, Germany) used the Nanoscribe
system for the fabrication of 3D cell
culture scaffolds with adjustable pore
sizes (2-10 µm) on a microporous
carrier membrane for applying
diffusible
chemical
gradients.
A valuable tool to dissect cell-type
specific mechanical and signaling
aspects during matrix invasion.
* 3D Printing in Medical Applications Market- Global
Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast,
2013-2019, published by Transparency Market Research
** Ref: Biomaterials 2014 Jan; 35(2): 611-9
C180 fullerene-like polymer microstructure for rheology and cell scaffold research
fabricated with one of Nanoscribe´s 3D printers.
DeScribe 2.1: New Features
The release of DeScribe 2.1 opens users
of Photonic Professional (GT) systems
a variety of new opportunities, e.g.
importing and converting STL files for
a simplier workﬂow or the debugging
of GWL files.
> read more on page 2
Candidature
Nanoscribe’s 3D printer
Photonic Professional GT
convinced the jury of the
2014 Prism Awards as one of the most
innovative products in the catergory
“Advanced Manufacturing”. Together
with Innolite, the are two German
companies competing for the “Oscar
of Photonics” in this category.
> read more on page 3
In this Issue
Page
Increasing Demand in the
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Medical Industry for 3D Printing
DeScibe 2.1: New Features
2
First GT-Installations in Australia 3
Candidature for Prism Award
3
Upcoming Exhibitions
3
Imprint
3
Nanoscribe Worldwide
4
Contact
4
www.nanoscribe.de
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NEWS AND REVIEWS
DeScribe 2.1
Implementation of many new features in the current software release
DeScribe is our custom development tool for creating and editing
files of Nanoscribe’s proprietary
General Writing Language (GWL).
Recently we released the new version
DeScribe 2.1 which greatly improves
on the previous version and simplifies the workﬂow with Photonic
Professional (GT) systems with many
exciting new features. These new
features include the import and conversion of STL files, the improved
3D preview and a GWL debugger.
GWL DEBUGGER
complex hand-written GWL code. It is
targeted at users who program structures in GWL and regularly employ
advanced language features like
variables and loop constructs.
The new GWL debugger is a valuable
development tool that helps to locate
and correct programming mistakes in
It allows to step through GWL script
line by line updating the preview in
real-time.
many new options and significant
improvements in terms of robustness
and speed.
IMPORT OF STL FILES
With DeScribe 2.1 you can open and
convert STL files into the native GWL
format which NanoWrite uses for
fabrication. STL files with holes and
other mesh errors are automatically
corrected by a powerful mesh repair
feature before proceeding with the
conversion through a convenient and
feature-rich import wizard that provides visual feedback over the current
state and set of parameters.
This vastly exceeds the possibilities of
the predecessor NanoSlicer tool with
The import tool for STL files segments meshes into printable slices.
Additionally to reporting syntax errors
the debugger will perform consistency
checks on the successfully compiled
script and reports non-critical warnings about potential programming
mistakes, e.g. doubly defined variables.
Errors and warnings are both displayed
in the error list.
IMPROVED 3D PREVIEW
DeScribe 2.1 renders lines and points
as three dimensional objects representing the shape of the actual writing
result offering a close approximation
of what your designed structures will
look like after writing.
What you see is what you get!
Our service team will be happy to assist
you with upgrading to DeScribe 2.1.
E-mail: [email protected]
The improved 3D preview renders lines and points as three dimensional objects.
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News Ticker
First installations of Photonic Professional GT systems in Australia
We are glad to announce the
installation of two new Photonic
Professional GT systems in Australia, in
collaboration with our partner Warsash
Scientific Pvt. Ltd.
The first system was installed in
Melbourne at the MicroNano Research
Facility (MNRF) led by Prof. Friend
from the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology. The MNRF intends to act
as a research hub to bring together
diverse and high quality multidisciplinary micro- and nanotechnology
research.
The second system belongs to the
Australian Institute for Bioengineering
& Nanotechnologies (AIBN) in Brisbane.
The AIBN is part of the Australian
National Fabrication Facility which
offers access to equipment and
expertise to the Australian research
community, including industry and
private research organizations.
We welcome these two newcomers to
the Nanoscribe community and wish a
lot of success and outstanding results
for their research projects!
Upcoming Exhibitions
BiOS / Photonics West
San Francisco (CA), United States
February 01 - 06, 2014
Booth: 8214 (BiOS) / 123 (PW)
ACMM23 / ICONN
Adelaide, Australia
February 02 - 06, 2014
ICONSAT
Chandigarh, India
March 03 - 05, 2014
DPG Spring Meeting
Dresden, Germany
April 01 - 03, 2014
Booth: A26
Photonics Europe
Bruxelles, Belgium
April 14 - 17, 2014
Booth: S219
After the installation of the Photonic Professional GT system at AIBN in Brisbane, Australia.
From right to left: Dr. Lien Chau, Dr. Elliot Cheng, Dr. Daniel Day (Warsash Scientific) and
Frédéric Husser (Nanoscribe)
Candidature for Prism Award
Nanoscribe´s unrivaled 3D printer
Photonic Professional GT, convinced
the jury of Prism Award of its
excellence performance, accuracy and tremendous speed-up
for the fabrication of nanoand microstructures. As an
enabler for true submicron
resolution, the system transfers
the benefits of 3D printing to the
micrometer scale.
Prism Award, known as “Oscars of
Photonics”, is an annual competition
EIPBN
Washington D.C., United States
May 27 - 30, 2014
Imprint
recognizing new products and inventions in the field of photonics
that break with conventional
ideas, solve problems,
improve life, and are
newly available on the
market.
The winners of the
Prism Awards 2014 will
be announced in San Francisco
(USA) during the SPIE Photonics West
exhibition.
News and Reviews, Issue: January 2014
Editor: Martin Hermatschweiler
Assistant Editor: Anke Werner
Contributions: Roman Reiner, Frédéric
Husser, Dr. Fabian Niesler
Creation & Design: Anke Werner
Photos: Nanoscribe
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Nanoscribe was founded in 2007
as the first spin-off company of the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Over the last six years, the company
has expanded steadily and has established itself as world market and technology leader in the field of 3D laser
lithography.
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