Additive manufacturing/3D printing in Australia has received a boost thanks to a grant handed out by the United States. Just over 37 years ago, 31-year-old Japanese lawyer, Dr Hideo Kodama from the Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute, patented two additive methods that allowed the fabrication of 3D plastic models. He also utilised the properties of photo-hardening thermoset polymers, where the UV exposure area is controlled by a scanning fibre transmitter or a mask pattern.
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