A Versatile Photocrosslinkable Silicone Composite for 3D Printing Applications.

ABSTRACT: Embedded printing has emerged as a valuable tool for fabricating complex structures and microfluidic devices. Currently, an ample of amount of research is going on to develop new materials to advance its capabilities and increase its potential applications. Here, we demonstrate a novel, transparent, printable, photocrosslinkable, and tuneable silicone composite that can be utilized as a support bath or an extrudable ink for embedded printing. Its properties can be tuned to achieve ideal rheological properties, such as optimal self-recovery and yield stress, for use in 3D printing. When used as a support bath, it facilitated the generation microfluidic devices with circular channels of diameter up to 30 μm. To demonstrate its utility, flow focusing microfluidic devices were fabricated for g

SUBMITTER: Alioglu MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11178280 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature