Ultra-portable solar-powered 3D printers for onsite manufacturing of medical resources

Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 830-834

  Wong, Julielynn Y ^a  

^a Center for Innovative Technologies and Public Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Digital fabrication; Global health; Long duration space missions; Photovoltaics; Space medicine

Indexed keywords

DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE FLIGHT; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 84952311166     PISSN: 23756314     EISSN: 23756322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/AMHP.4308.2015     Document Type: Note

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