Fabrication of Multi-Material Pneumatic Actuators and Microactuators Using Stereolithography.

ABSTRACT: Pneumatic actuators are of great interest for device miniaturization, microactuators, soft robots, biomedical engineering, and complex control systems. Recently, multi-material actuators have become of high interest to researchers due to their comprehensive range of suitable applications. Three-dimensional (3D) printing of multi-material pneumatic actuators would be the ideal way to fabricate customized actuators, but so far, this is mostly limited to deposition-based methodologies, such as fused deposition modeling (FDM) or Polyjetting. Vat-based stereolithography is one of the most relevant high-resolution 3D printing methods but is only rarely utilized in the multi-material 3D printing of materials. This study demonstrated multi-material stereolithography using combinations of materials

SUBMITTER: Song Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9966499 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature