3D Printing a Mechanically-Tunable Acrylate Resin on a Commercial DLP-SLA Printer.

ABSTRACT: Multi-material 3D printing with several mechanically distinct materials at once has expanded the potential applications for additive manufacturing technology. Fewer material options exist, however, for additive systems that employ vat photopolymerization (such as stereolithography, SLA, and digital light projection, DLP, 3D printers), which are more commonly used for advanced engineering prototypes and manufacturing. Those material selections that do exist are limited in their capacity for fusion due to disparate chemical and physical properties, limiting the potential mechanical range for multi-material printed composites. Here, we present an ethylene glycol phenyl ether acrylate (EGPEA)-based formulation for a polymer resin yielding a range of elastic moduli between 0.6 MPa and 33 MPa si

SUBMITTER: Borrello J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6516765 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature