To celebrate our recent PNAS publication on ice printing, we took the team to the Amsterdam Icebar. It’s minus 10 degrees inside, which felt like the most logical place to go after spending months working on evaporative cooling in vacuum chambers.
The drinks there are served in cups carved out of solid ice. It is a nice touch, but as we stood around holding them, we quickly agreed on one thing. The standard carved ice does the job, but the bar would definitely benefit from a few of our own 3D-printed ice sculptures.
Demmenie, Menno, Stefan Kooij, and Daniel Bonn. “Three-dimensional printing of ice structures via evaporative cooling in vacuum.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123.36 (2026): e2608173123.