3D Printing of Ionogels with Complementary Functionalities Enabled by Self-Regulating Ink.

ABSTRACT: Shaping soft and conductive materials into sophisticated architectures through 3D printing is driving innovation in myriad applications, such as robotic counterparts that emulate the synergic functions of biological systems. Although recently developed multi-material 3D printing has enabled on-demand creation of intricate artificial counterparts from a wide range of functional viscoelastic materials. However, directly achieving complementary functionalities in one ink design remains largely unexplored, given the issues of printability and synergy among ink components. In this study, an easily accessible and self-regulating tricomponent ionogel-based ink design to address these challenges is reported. The resultant 3D printed objects, based on the same component but with varying ratios of i

SUBMITTER: Huang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10460849 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature