resumo
Over the last three decades, a variety of additive manufacturing techniques have gradually gained maturity and will potentially play an important role in future manufacturing industries. Among them, direct ink writing has attracted significant attention from both material and tissue engineering areas, where the colloidal ink is extruded and dispensed according to a pre-designed path, usually in the X-Y plane with suitable increments in the Z direction. Undoubtedly, this way of disassembling geometries, simple or complex, can facilitate most of the printing process. However, for one extreme case, i.e. pillar arrays, the size resolution can deviate from both nozzle and design if the common way of slicing and additive manufacturing is used. Therefore, a different printing path is required - directly depositing pillars in a converse gravitational direction. This paper gives multiple examples of printing viscoelastic colloidal ceramic and metal inks uniaxially and periodically into free-standing and height-adjustable pillar arrays. It is expected to inspire the additive manufacturing community that more versatile degrees of freedom and complex printing paths, not confined within only complex shapes, can be achieved by ink-based 3D printing.
palavras-chave
HIGH-ASPECT-RATIO; THIXOTROPY; COMPONENTS; CERAMICS; RHEOLOGY; DESIGN
categoria
Materials Science
autores
Nan, B; Galindo-Rosales, FJ; Ferreira, JMF
nossos autores
José Maria da Fonte Ferreira
Professor(a) Jubilado(a)
Nan Bo
Estudante de doutoramentoagradecimentos
The authors would like to thank Dr. Yu Linping for useful discussion during the preparation of the draft. The authors also would like to thank Delta Tecnic S.A. Spain, for kindly offering the aluminum powder. This work was developed within the scope of the project CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, FCT Ref. UID/CTM/50011/2019, financed by national funds through the FCT/MCTES. FJGR would also like to acknowledge the financial support provided by 'Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional' (FEDER, Portugal), through 'Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalizacao' (COMPETE 2020), and by FCT/MCTES, through national funds (PIDDAC), grant number POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030765.