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Acoustic Fabrication via the Assembly and Fusion of Particles
Acoustic assembly promises a route toward rapid parallel fabrication of whole objects directly from solution. This study reports the contact-free and maskless assembly, and fixing of silicone particles into arbitrary 2D shapes using ultrasound fields. Ultrasound passes through an acoustic hologram to form a target image. The particles assemble from a suspension along lines of high pressure in the image due to acoustic radiation forces and are then fixed (crosslinked) in a UV-triggered reaction. For this, the particles are loaded with a photoinitiator by solvent-induced swelling. This localizes the reaction and allows the bulk suspension to be reused. The final fabricated parts are mechanically stable and self-supporting.
@article{2017melde, title = {Acoustic Fabrication via the Assembly and Fusion of Particles}, journal = {Advanced Materials}, abstract = {Acoustic assembly promises a route toward rapid parallel fabrication of whole objects directly from solution. This study reports the contact-free and maskless assembly, and fixing of silicone particles into arbitrary 2D shapes using ultrasound fields. Ultrasound passes through an acoustic hologram to form a target image. The particles assemble from a suspension along lines of high pressure in the image due to acoustic radiation forces and are then fixed (crosslinked) in a UV-triggered reaction. For this, the particles are loaded with a photoinitiator by solvent-induced swelling. This localizes the reaction and allows the bulk suspension to be reused. The final fabricated parts are mechanically stable and self-supporting.}, volume = {30}, number = {3}, pages = {1704507}, month = jan, year = {2018}, slug = {adma-adma201704507}, author = {Melde, Kai and Choi, Eunjin and Wu, Zhiguang and Palagi, Stefano and Qiu, Tian and Fischer, Peer}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.201704507}, month_numeric = {1} }
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