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Micro 3D Printing Using a Digital Projector and its Application in the Study of Soft Materials Mechanics

DOI :

10.3791/4457-v

9:24 min

November 27th, 2012

November 27th, 2012

24,849 Views

1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

We demonstrate controlled pattern transformation of swelling gel tubes by elastic instability. A simple projection micro stereo-lithography setup is built using an off-the-shelf digital data projector to fabricate three-dimensional polymeric structures in a layer-by-layer fashion. Swelling hydrogel tubes under mechanical constraint display various circumferential buckling modes depending on dimension.

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