At a glance
| Booth | Q6134 |
| Country | JP |
| Website | www.3d-architech.com |
Company profile
3D Architech, Inc. develops patented gel-enabled metal 3D printing technology that gives micron-scale control over metal designs and is intended to unlock device performance at scalable production volumes. Its manufacturing approach is positioned as a lower-cost alternative in metal 3D printing while enabling more advanced micro-features than conventional approaches described by the company. The company describes its manufacturing capability as scalable metal production with exceptionally fine micron-scale features, linking fine feature control directly to the structures that can be created in metal parts. A central technical principle is micro-design control: 3D Architech uses micron-level control to optimize structures so that the resulting device can achieve improved performance. Its gel-based process is designed to reduce manufacturing cost by using existing 3D printers together with specialized gel-based chemistry achieved through precise molecular control. The same micro-design capability is applied to thermal-management structures, where controlling geometry at small scales is used to reduce thermal resistance and pressure drop. For cooling applications, 3D Architech fabricates heatsinks with micron-scale features in pure copper and alloys, using the material and structural freedom of its process to support high-performance cooling. For energy-conversion applications, it develops porous metal architectures with micron-scale precision to control uniform gas and liquid flow and to improve the efficiency and performance of clean-energy technologies. The company identifies team activity in the United States around Boston and in Japan around Sendai, reflecting a technical organization operating across the two regions. In 2025, 3D Architech was selected as the winner of the SusHi Tech Challenge 2025 Pitch Contest from among 657 startups worldwide. Also in 2025, it received the SME AM Start-Up Technology Award for innovation in additive manufacturing. In 2024, the company was selected as one of the 8 MIT Sustainability Startups to Watch, adding a sustainability-focused milestone to its development record.
Exhibits
The product lineup includes liquid-cooling cold plates for AI data centers and gel-enabled metal 3D printing technology, covering both a specific thermal-management component and the manufacturing platform used to create fine metal structures. The AI-data-center cold plates are fabricated with microscale structures with a minimum feature size of 10 µm, providing a defined scale for the company's microscale structure fabrication capability. These 10 µm-scale cold-plate structures are designed to improve cooling performance by reducing both thermal resistance and pressure drop in liquid-cooling operation. 3D Architech also connects its cold-plate micro-design control with energy-cost savings in data-center cooling, making the geometry of the cooling component part of the operating-efficiency proposition. The gel-enabled metal 3D printing platform offers micron-scale design control and scalable production, so it can be used to build metal devices whose performance depends on tightly controlled small features. Its metal 3D printing scope includes advanced micro-feature fabrication rather than only conventional macro-scale part shaping, with the process presented as a route to finer structures at lower manufacturing cost. Cooling-related outputs include pure-copper and alloy heatsinks with micron-scale features, while clean-energy outputs include porous metal architectures that manage gas or liquid flow. Together, these offerings connect metal additive manufacturing, microscale structure fabrication, liquid cooling for AI data centers, and flow-controlled porous metals within the semiconductor-adjacent thermal and energy technology landscape.
Capabilities and products
- liquid-cooling cold plates for AI data centers
- gel-enabled metal 3D printing
- 10 µm microscale cold-plate structure fabrication
- micron-scale pure-copper and alloy heatsink fabrication
- micron-scale porous metal architecture fabrication