Humanity has always relied on a revolution in materials to advance to the next stage of civilisation.
What is very important is that we fundamentally change the process in which we are producing new materials.
ATU Delftspinout founded in 2014, the company just secured14.5 million in afundinground led by Plural.
This, the company says, will make it more affordable to scale production.
Solid rods of the material to be processed are inserted into the system.
Then, there is what van Vugt calls a Big Bang.
An electrical spark creates a very localised, very intense hot plasma going up to 20,000 degrees Celsius.
These building blocks are then used by the VSP-P1 NanoPrinter.
The machine, which ships to customers this year, functions similarly to a regular office inkjet printer.
Except, it doesnt use four basic colours to come up with an array of hues.
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