Wednesday 16:00 pm - 17:15 pm FIT, Georges-Köhler-Allee 105, 79110 Freiburg

livMatS Colloquium | Next generation 3D Printing: The emergence of enabling materials

Talk by Prof. Dr. Bastian Rapp (Dept. of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg)

Additive manufacturing and 3D printing have seen significant improvements in terms of processing and instrumentation with the aim of increasing the complexity of the objects constructible, increasing resolution and lateral dimensions as well as speed of manufacturing. Interestingly, the choice of materials has not been increasing significantly. Most 3D printing techniques still use polymers or composites (e.g., with ceramic particles). Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is the only process which has been extended to include metals. One of the oldest materials mankind has used was missing: Glass. Account of man-made objects in glass date back to 5000 BC. Glass has numerous advantageous properties including unmatched optical properties, mechanical, thermal as well as chemical stability to name but a few. This presentation summarizes some of the recent material developments at the NeptunLab on novel materials for 3D Printing – from biological interfaces to fluorinated polymers and glass highlighting the strongly interdisciplinary nature of Additive Manufacturing. At the beginning of the webinar, I will also briefly introduce and outline the ZEISS Research Cluster Interactive and Programmable Materials (IPROM) which we launched a few weeks ago at FIT.

Next Generation 3D Printing:The Emergence of Enabling Materials