Two UW-Madison graduate students in chemical engineering have made recent developments for 3-D printer technology with the help of grants, providing an easier method to print objects in color.
Cédric Kovacs-Johnson and Chase Haider, original innovators of the university’s 3-D printing technology, invented a patent-pending technology that allows multiple colors to be obtained more easily from a 3-D printer, a university release said
Their business idea received an Igniter grant from the UW’s Discovery to Product office, a program intended to help advance innovations that have not yet found companies, according to the release.
Most 3-D printers have multiple extruders that can only lay down one color but work together to produce an object. Kovacs-Johnson and Haider’s innovation allows a single extruder to produce multiple colors.
The group is producing an add-on designed to fit the most popular 3-D printer in order to commercialize the product, as opposed to producing entirely new printers.
