摘要
多材料多尺度3D打印是当前增材制造的前沿方向、研究难点和亟待突破的关键技术,它在组织工程、新材料、新一代电子产品、OLED、印刷电子、软体机器人等诸多领域有着非常广泛的应用,但是现有的增材制造技术在实现多材料跨尺度3D打印面临许多挑战性难题.材料喷射沉积成形技术在实现多材料多尺度3D打印具有非常突出的优势和巨大的潜能,本文提出一种电场驱动喷射沉积3D打印新方法,它突破了现有材料喷射沉积3D打印在打印材料、接收衬底、喷嘴材料、跨尺度制造等方面的一些不足和限制性,尤其是结合多喷头技术,能够实现跨尺度多材料复杂三维结构一体化制造.首先,阐述了该方法的基本原理,并通过理论分析和数值模拟揭示了其成形机理;随后,通过系统的实验研究,验证了电场驱动喷射沉积3D打印对于衬底(或者已打印结构)材质、打印高度和位置、导电和非导电喷嘴、打印材料普适性,以及所提出的两种工作模式在实现跨尺度制造方面的可行性和有效性;最后,通过4个典型打印案例,展示了提出的电场驱动喷射沉积3D打印在实现异质、跨尺度复杂三维结构化制造的能力和突出优势,证明了它在实现多材料多尺度3D打印方面的可行性和有效性.本研究为探索低成本多材料跨尺度3D打印提供了一种全新的解决方案.
Multi-scale and multi-material 3D printing technique has been considered as a revolutionary technology and next-generation manufacturing tool which can really fulfill the "creating material" and "creating life", especially subvert traditional product design and manufacturing scheme. However, very few of the established additive manufacturing processes have now the capability to fully implement the multi-scale and multi-material fabrication. It is still a significant challenging issue for existing additive manufacturing technologies to implement the multi-material and multi-scale 3D printing for fabricating heterogeneous and hierarchical structured object at full scale ranging from nano to macro-scale. This paper presents a novel 3D printing technique, electric-field-driven jet deposition 3D printing, which offers a promsing and feasible approach to really fulfill multi-scale and multi-material additive manufacturing at low cost. Two new printing schemes, which include pulsed cone-jet mode and continuous cone-jet mode, are proposed herein considering both accuracy and efficiency for multi-scale manufacturing. The experimental results have demonstrated and verified the unique and outstanding advantages of the proposed 3D printing process which involve good universality, and are almost unrestricted in terms of arbitrary substrates(conductive, nonconductive, non-planar, curve, etc.), various solutions and melted materials printed, conductive and non-conductive nozzles, stand-off distance between the nozzle and substrate, and the flexibility to macro/micro fabrication. These four typical cases have shown that the electric-field-driven jet deposition 3D printing provides a promising and effective method to implement the multi-material and multi-scale 3D printing at low cost for fabricating heterogeneous and hierarchical structured object at full scale ranging from micro to macro-scale. As a result, this study offers a novel solution for fulfilling multi-scale and multi-material 3D printing at low cost and good universality as well as high resolution.
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