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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

Article DOI: 10.3791/4457
November 27th, 2012

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Summary November 27th, 2012

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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