December 22, 2024

Significant progress has been made in the field of 3D printing abroad

The importance of 3D printing as a part of industrial processes is growing, thanks to the gradual maturation of additive manufacturing technologies.

A research project at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany is likely to make significant strides in 3D printing, enabling the production, erasing, and modifying of certain structures on industrial products as needed. The study has been published in the German Journal of Applied Chemistry.

A breakthrough at Karlsruher Institute of Technology relates to a new formulation of inks for use in the direct laser writing (DLW) manufacturing process - where the ink is coupled by a laser to create a laser that meets preprogrammed Rugged design.

Christopher Barner-Kowollik of Karlsruhe Institute of Chemical Technology and Polymer Chemistry commented: "The development of repeatable erasable inks is one of the major challenges of direct laser writing."

The research project addresses this challenge by developing inks that have reversibly coupled properties that break down the entire structure after it has completed the construction of the product structure.

Write and erase repeatedly: 3D microstructure

The formation of the chemical structure of the ink begins with the DLW radiation of the phenacylsulfide linker, which in turn generates disulfide bonds during its gradual polymerization via reactive ethanedithiol.

Subsequent dipping of the material into the dithiothreitol caused the cleavage of the chemical bonds until complete digestion, after which time direct laser writing could again be used to create new or improved structures. In this way, the final structure of the project can be repeated as the designer changes the drawings.

Three-dimensional microscopic stent

According to published papers, cleavage of chemical bonds can be used as a structural design tool because cleavage of chemical bonds in dithiothreitol tends to be highly orthogonal to chemical bonds produced by DLW in other acrylate-based structures. Under normal conditions, this selective fracture allows the research team to use a new material to produce a brilliant grating with a 300 nm line resolution.

New inks are currently available for a variety of DLW applications, such as structures that integrate erasable and non-erasable regions, as well as building structures for manufacturing processes and erasing them after use.

Another use is for 3D design petri dishes in biology, a topic already studied by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in which researchers completed the research on the three-dimensional cell growth at laboratory scale in 2016 September Schrödinger won the award. In conjunction with the new erasable technology, researchers are able to remove parts of a three-dimensional cell scaffold during cell growth to see how cells respond to a changing environment.

Other studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for 3D printing include process development of additive manufacturing technology using optical glass, pioneering many potential applications in optics, which are currently limited to metal or polymer materials.


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