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Elizabeth Montalbano. (2019, January 25). Breakthrough 3D Printed Materials Make Strong, Lightweight Structures. Retrieved from https://www.designnews.com/materials-assembly/breakthrough-3d-printed-materials-make-strong-lightweight-structures/133147783059994 This article focuses on a stronger and lightweight 3D printed material through a new interior structure design. It provides the benefits of the new plate-lattice structure as compared to the truss-lattices structure which has been around for a long time. The most well-known truss-lattice structure would be the Eiffel Tower. For truss-lattices structure, whenever a force is being applied, one out of three of the structs withstands the incoming force, the two others being idle. Whereas, when it comes to the plate-lattice structure, the other two structs instead of being idle would provide stability to the structure. This new structure increases the efficiency of the entire structure, thereby improving overall strength and stif...