Stretchable, flexible, recyclable: this plastic is fantastic
2024年12月12日 · The researchers used 3D printing to orient these nanoscale cylinders, which leads to a 3D printed material that is hard in one direction but soft and stretchy in nearly all others. Designers can orient these cylinders in different directions throughout a single object, leading to soft architectures which exhibit stiffness and stretchiness in ...
Princeton researchers 3D print soft, flexible materials
4 天之前 · The researchers used 3D printing to orient these nanoscale cylinders, which leads to a 3D printed material that is hard in one direction but soft and stretchy in nearly all others. Designers can orient these cylinders in different directions throughout a single object – leading to soft architectures that exhibit stiffness and stretchiness in ...
Stretchable, flexible, recyclable: this plastic is fantastic
2024年12月12日 · Princeton engineers have developed an easily scalable 3D printing technique to manufacture soft plastics with programmed stretchiness and flexibility that are also recyclable and inexpensive—qualities not typically combined in commercially manufactured materials.In an article in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, a team led by Emily Davidso
Unleashing the potential of 3D printing soft materials
2023年9月22日 · The overarching goal is to tap into the game-changing potential of 3D-printed soft materials, propelling opportunities for innovative applications such as creating organ replicas for transplant, developing dynamic optics, highly responsive photonics devices and soft robotic structures that can mimic biological entities, and further ...
Direct Ink Write 3D Printing of Fully Dense and Functionally …
2024年9月6日 · Liquid metal (LM) elastomer composites offer promising potential in soft robotics, wearable electronics, and human-machine interfaces. Direct ink write (DIW) 3D printing offers a versatile manufacturing technique capable of precise control over LM microstructures, yet challenges such as interfilament void formation in multilayer …
Intelligent Soft Materials and 3D Printing - Zhao Lab
Intelligent materials, also known as active materials, show responses to external stimuli including light, heat, electric field, and magnetic field. With specifically designed polymeric matrix and fillers, intelligent composites facilitate complex deformations and multifunctions.
Printing soft matter in three dimensions | Nature
2016年12月14日 · In this Review we describe soft matter and introduce the light- and ink-based 3D printing techniques that are used to pattern such materials, with an emphasis on enhancing feature...
Shaping soft materials via digital light processing-based 3D printing ...
2022年2月1日 · This reviewer article presents a brief but timely introduction to the most recent advances in DLP-based 3D printing of soft materials including SMPs, hydrogel, LCEs, elastomers, and reprocessable thermosets.
3D printing of soft materials with superhydrophobicity and …
2024年3月1日 · In this work, superhydrophobic materials with mechanical compliance were facilely prepared by a material extrusion-based 3D printing method. The surface structures and the wetting behavior were well regulated by the designed printing path.
Unleashing the potential of 3D printing soft materials - Cell Press
2023年9月22日 · This perspective highlights the challenges in 3D printing soft materials, such as limited printable materials and low resolution, and proposes strategies to overcome them, including the development of printable materials and enhancing printability, as well as the direct construction of functional structures using 3D printing techniques.