Join us for a series of lectures featuring materials sciences expert Prof. Rigoberto Advincula of Case Western Reserve University! Our new 2018 series with Prof. Advincula is focused on giving audiences a deeper look into various aspects of 3D printing. With applications in many fields such as manufacturing, medicine, architecture, and custom art and design, 3D printing is be at the forefront of many commercial technologies for years to come. Our next entry in this series is focused on how viscous solutions are utilized in 3D printing. Convention 3D printers use basic print heads that only allow for thin liquids to be pass through when printing objects. Thin liquids by nature are composed of shorter molecular chains which translate to increasingly brittle and fragile structures once the liquid has cured. To get around this problem, developers have been hard at work creating print heads that can handle liquids wich much longer molecular chains and are therefore thicker than materials used in the past. Join us as Prof. Advincula surveys the field of 3D printing research and development through the lens of the latest in nanoscale characterization techniques.