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3D/4D Printing of Polymers: Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), and Stereolithography (SLA)

Abishek Kafle, Eric Luis, Raman Silwal, Houwen Matthew Pan Orcid Logo, Pratisthit Lal Shrestha, Anil Bastola

Polymers, Volume: 13, Issue: 18, Start page: 3101

Swansea University Author: Anil Bastola

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DOI (Published version): 10.3390/polym13183101

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Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing is a digital manufacturing process and offers virtually limitless opportunities to develop structures/objects by tailoring material composition, processing conditions, and geometry technically at every point in an object. In this review, we present three di...

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Published in: Polymers
ISSN: 2073-4360
Published: MDPI AG 2021
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65744
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Abstract: Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing is a digital manufacturing process and offers virtually limitless opportunities to develop structures/objects by tailoring material composition, processing conditions, and geometry technically at every point in an object. In this review, we present three different early adopted, however, widely used, polymer-based 3D printing processes; fused deposition modelling (FDM), selective laser sintering (SLS), and stereolithography (SLA) to create polymeric parts. The main aim of this review is to offer a comparative overview by correlating polymer material-process-properties for three different 3D printing techniques. Moreover, the advanced material-process requirements towards 4D printing via these print methods taking an example of magneto-active polymers is covered. Overall, this review highlights different aspects of these printing methods and serves as a guide to select a suitable print material and 3D print technique for the targeted polymeric material-based applications and also discusses the implementation practices towards 4D printing of polymer-based systems with a current state-of-the-art approach.
Keywords: 3D printing; 4D printing; fused deposition modelling; selective laser sintering; stereolithography; polymers
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 18
Start Page: 3101

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