Pulsed-heat 3D printing grows metre-tall single-crystal titanium-alloy parts, a Nature paper reports

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Source: NatureBy: Changmeng Liu, Y. Morris Wang et al. (Beijing Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, UCLA)Date: 10/21/2026, 12:00:00 AM
Chinese and US researchers say a wire-arc printing technique with carefully timed heat pulses can grow very long titanium-alloy crystals free of grain boundaries, plus refractory-metal crystals and lattices. Researchers from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, Xi'an Jiaotong…
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