A resin printer from Chad Mirkin’s lab at Northwestern University in Illinois can create structures as large as a person in hours (image sequence sped up). Credit: Northwestern University
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Nature 578, 20-23 (2020)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00271-6
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Correction 07 February 2020: An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that Relativity Space intended to do a test launch this year, and misstated the timeline for the development of the printing technique that forms a 3D object in a spinning resin.
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