Worcester Polytechnic Institute has a lab called the Lab for Education & Application Prototypes. In this lab, there is a 3D printer capable of extreme detail and precision and can be used in a wide range of fields from biology, and photonics to chemistry and more. This 3D printer is called a Nanoscribe 3D printer and is a type of nano 3D printer. The vast number of applications that this nano 3D printer can be used is the reason for wanting to explore where this technology exists and what kind of smaller and lesser-known applications this technology is being used for. This data collection and presentation will be done by using a data mining software called “Publish or Perish 8” and the data will be presented by using a combination of Excel and some excel add-ons to create tables, graphs, and geographic heat maps. As well as using an online word cloud generator to create two word clouds. This data will then be analyzed and conclusions will be made as for the geographic heat maps the countries that are lacking publications will be noted and this can be used to see where this technology should be expanded across the world thus allowing for more discoveries and innovations to occur in this revolutionary field.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Roth, Mason

Subject

• Infrastructure
• Industry
• Community
• Innovation
• Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032223-195124
• 94416

Keyword

• 2 Photon Polymerization
• Nanoscribe
• 2PP
• 3D printing

Advisor

• Eakin, James
• Petkie, Douglas Todd

Year

• 2023

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2023-03-22

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-032223-195124

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-04-14