3D printing of multi-scalable structures via high penetration near-infrared photopolymerization

Junzhe Zhu; Qiang Zhang; Tianqing Yang; Yu Liu; Ren Liu

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17251-z

Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

3D printing of multi-scalable structures via high penetration near-infrared photopolymerization

Junzhe Zhu,
Qiang Zhang,
Tianqing Yang,
Yu Liu,
Ren Liu

Affiliations

Junzhe Zhu: Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University
Qiang Zhang: School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangnan University
Tianqing Yang: Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University
Yu Liu: School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangnan University
Ren Liu: Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17251-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Currently UV-based direct ink writing (DIW) is facing a trade-off between required curing intensity and effectiveness range. Here the authors overcome this problem by introducing near-infrared photopolymerization into DIW

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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