Advances for additive manufacturing

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Examples of printing techniques: Stereolithography can be used to manufacture co
Examples of printing techniques: Stereolithography can be used to manufacture components in great detail by selectively cross-linking a resin. Extrusion-based 3D printing processes can be used to manufacture multi-component parts. The novel printing process ,,Melt Electrowriting’ enables the production of scaffold carriers made of fibers with diameters smaller than those of human hair. These thin fibers make it possible to control cell-material interactions in scaffold carriers. (Image: Chair of Functional Materials in Medicine and Dentistry / University of Würzburg).


Professor Jürgen Groll has raised around 880,000 euros for a new project. His team wants to use it to lay the foundation for improved multifunctional medical implants and materials.

3D printers can be used to efficiently produce engineering materials and medical implants. This type of production is also known as additive manufacturing.

However, if the products are to be made of several materials and perform several functions, there are still hurdles to overcome - material properties have to be matched to one another, and the precision of the components has to be increased. It is also not yet possible to control the quality of the manufacturing process during printing. ...
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