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NATURE
卷 612, 期 7941, 页码 685-+出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05433-2
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- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0016945]
- Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech
- Caltech
- Masason Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0016945] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Metal additive manufacturing enables the production of high value and high performance components through layer-by-layer fabrication. A new technique called vat photopolymerization (VP) is introduced, which allows the production of metals and alloys with microscale resolution. This technique does not require reoptimization of resins and curing parameters for different materials, enabling quick fabrication and compositional tuning.
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) enables the production of high value and high performance components(1) with applications from aerospace(2) to biomedical(3) fields. Layer-by-layer fabrication circumvents the geometric limitations of traditional metalworking techniques, allowing topologically optimized parts to be made rapidly and efficiently(4,5). Existing AM techniques rely on thermally initiated melting or sintering for part shaping, a costly and material-limited process(6-8). We report an AM technique that produces metals and alloys with microscale resolution via vat photopolymerization (VP). Three-dimensional-architected hydrogels are infused with metal precursors, then calcined and reduced to convert the hydrogel scaffolds into miniaturized metal replicas. This approach represents a paradigm shift in VP; the material is selected only after the structure is fabricated. Unlike existing VP strategies, which incorporate target materials or precursors into the photoresin during printing(9-11), our method does not require reoptimization of resins and curing parameters for different materials, enabling quick iteration, compositional tuning and the ability to fabricate multimaterials. We demonstrate AM of metals with critical dimensions of approximately 40 mu m that are challenging to fabricate by using conventional processes. Such hydrogel-derived metals have highly twinned microstructures and unusually high hardness, providing a pathway to create advanced metallic micromaterials.
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