Journal
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Volume 37, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.addma.2020.101716
Keywords
Digital light processing; Jacobs working curve; Absorbance; UV absorber; Photocurable material
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFA0703000]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52075482]
- Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province [2017C01063]
- Zhejiang Clinical Research Center of Minimally Invasive Diagnosis and Treatment of Abdominal Diseases [2018E50003]
- Key Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province [2018C03083]
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An analytical model based on differential analysis was developed to obtain the relationship between UV light exposure time and cured thickness in DLP printing. Adjusting the concentration of UV absorber in the materials led to good agreement between analytical Jacobs working curves and experimental data. This theoretical model lays the foundation for accurate DLP printing parameters and enables high-precision printing of photocurable materials.
To achieve high-precision printing results in the digital light process (DLP), the Jacobs working curve (the relationship between the absorbed UV light energy and the cured thickness of the photocurable material during UV light exposure) is of great importance in obtaining accurate printing parameters for a particular photocurable material. However, conventional experimental measurements of the variation of cured thickness under UV light exposure for each individual photocurable material are extremely time-consuming and wasteful of material. In this current research, an analytical model based on differential analysis is developed to analytically obtain the relationship between UV light exposure time and the cured thickness of a single layer. In this model, the analytical Jacobs working curve can be described as depending only on three physical properties of photocurable materials: solid absorbance, liquid absorbance, and gelation time. Moreover, adjusting the concentration of UV absorber in the photocurable materials leads to a good agreement between the analytical Jacobs working curve and the experimental data. The analytical Jacobs working curves of polyethylene (glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) hydrogel and gelatin methacrylate (GelMA)/decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) bioink were utilized to predict DLP printing parameters, which were demonstrated to be accurate enough to print 3D complex structures, i.e., three periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS), a triangle cone, and a diamond grid overlaid spherical shell. This theoretical model of the DLP Jacobs working curve lays the foundations for appropriate DLP printing parameters, and in particular makes possible high-precision DLP printing of photocurable materials.
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