{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Huang PH"],"funding":["Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research)","Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning"],"pagination":["3305"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10244462"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["14(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Silica glass is a high-performance material used in many applications such as lenses, glassware, and fibers. However, modern additive manufacturing of micro-scale silica glass structures requires sintering of 3D-printed silica-nanoparticle-loaded composites at ~1200 °C, which causes substantial structural shrinkage and limits the choice of substrate materials. Here, 3D printing of solid silica glass with sub-micrometer resolution is demonstrated without the need of a sintering step. This is achieved by locally crosslinking hydrogen silsesquioxane to silica glass using nonlinear absorption of sub-picosecond laser pulses. The as-printed glass is optically transparent but shows a high ratio of 4-membered silicon-oxygen rings and photoluminescence. Optional annealing at 900 °C makes the glass "],"journal":["Nature communications"],"pubmed_title":["Three-dimensional printing of silica glass with sub-micrometer resolution."],"pmcid":["PMC10244462"],"funding_grant_id":["SSF GMT14-0071"],"pubmed_authors":["Niklaus F","Mayer J","Edinger P","Nyman J","Stemme G","Gylfason KB","Huang PH","Lai LL","Duesberg GS","Errando-Herranz C","Laakso M","Hartwig O"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Three-dimensional printing of silica glass with sub-micrometer resolution.","description":"Silica glass is a high-performance material used in many applications such as lenses, glassware, and fibers. However, modern additive manufacturing of micro-scale silica glass structures requires sintering of 3D-printed silica-nanoparticle-loaded composites at ~1200 °C, which causes substantial structural shrinkage and limits the choice of substrate materials. Here, 3D printing of solid silica glass with sub-micrometer resolution is demonstrated without the need of a sintering step. This is achieved by locally crosslinking hydrogen silsesquioxane to silica glass using nonlinear absorption of sub-picosecond laser pulses. The as-printed glass is optically transparent but shows a high ratio of 4-membered silicon-oxygen rings and photoluminescence. Optional annealing at 900 °C makes the glass ","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Jun","modification":"2025-04-19T08:09:59.222Z","creation":"2025-04-19T08:09:59.222Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10244462","cross_references":{"pubmed":["37280208"],"doi":["10.1038/s41467-023-38996-3"]}}