A team of Washington State University researchers are looking at 3D printing on a small scale: they have developed a unique, patent-pending 3D manufacturing method to create and control the architecture of a material from the nanoscale to centimers. The resulting complex, bio-like materials mimic the architecture of natural materials such as bone and wood. This is the first time that 3D manufacturing has been able to precisely control, as well as quickly create, a material's architecture. The research team's work, recently published in a paper titled "Three-dimensional microarchitected materials and devices using nanoparticle assembly by pointwise spatial printing," for Science Advances journal, has many applications for cutting edge engineering. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/167398/3d-manufac...oarchitecture/