Material Jetting: Exploration on mixtures of solid and liquid for shock absorption

This research project delves into the potentials of material jetting printing through an exploration of voxel printing techniques that integrate solids and liquids. The focus centers on assessing the shock absorption (SA) capabilities of diverse samples incorporating varying materials and printing patterns. The key materials employed in this...

Improving the consistency of external breast prostheses with voxel-based 3D printing

Eighty percent of women after mastectomy wear an external breast prosthesis either permanently or during the period before breast reconstruction. External breast prostheses replace the removed breast and aim to recreate the original body shape. However, while each woman has a different chest wall and scar topology, most commonly used are...

Property-based functional gradients for biomimetic composites

Functional gradients in hard-soft interfaces are abundant in nature, and we often mimic them to create strong and tough composites. A powerful tool for the designs and fabrication of biomimetic composites is voxel-based multi-material 3D printing. Earlier researches mainly focused on using this technique in the creation of gradients based on...

Voxel-based additive manufacturing of biomimetic multiscale anisotropic materials

Polymer composites are found to have high performance efficiency because of its highly flexible polymer matrix and stiff fibres or functional fillers. The matrix and the reinforcements are two main components for a strong and tough composite. The performance of these composites highly depend on the material property of the matrix and the...

Voxel-based additive manufacturing of biomimetic hard-soft materials: A fundamental study on the effect of biomimetic design parameters on fracture properties

The fracture properties of natural materials often outperform artificial material properties. This could be explained by their complex multi-scale (anisotropic) hard-soft material structure, starting at a nano-scale. The interest in the fabrication of complex biomimetic hard-soft materials and interfaces is growing due to their high fracture...