Digital Light Processing (DLP) 3D Printing of Caprolactone Copolymers with Tailored Properties through Crystallinity.

ABSTRACT: Digital light processing (DLP) 3D printing has shown great advantages such as high resolution in the fabrication of 3D objects toward a range of applications. Despite the rapid development of photocurable materials for DLP printing, tailoring properties to meet the specific demands for various applications remains challenging. Herein, we introduce copolymers of caprolactone and allyl caprolactone offering built-in functionality for thiol-ene photochemistry, thereby omitting the need for postfunctionalization. A crystalline block copolymer and an amorphous statistical copolymer were synthesized with the same comonomer composition and molecular weight. Thio-ene photocuring with a tetrafunctional thiol cross-linker was studied at different thiol to double-bond ratios for the copolymers and th

SUBMITTER: Bartolini Torres G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11443484 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature