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Micro 3D Printing Using a Digital Projector and its Application in the Study of Soft Materials Mechanics
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Micro 3D Printing Using a Digital Projector and its Application in the Study of Soft Materials Mechanics

Micro 3D Printing Using a Digital Projector and its Application in the Study of Soft Materials Mechanics

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November 27, 2012

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09:24 min
November 27, 2012

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We demonstrate controlled pattern transformation of swelling gel tubes by elastic instability. A simple projection micro stereo-lithography setup is built using an off-the-shelf digital data projector to fabricate three-dimensional polymeric structures in a layer-by-layer fashion. Swelling hydrogel tubes under mechanical constraint display various circumferential buckling modes depending on dimension.

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