Development of multi-material 3D printer

Samiul Basher; Kumkum Ahmed; Azusa Saito; Ajit Khosla; Masaru Kawakami; Hidemitsu Furukawa

doi:10.1117/12.2296453

23 March 2018 Development of multi-material 3D printer

Samiul Basher, Kumkum Ahmed, Azusa Saito, Ajit Khosla, Masaru Kawakami, Hidemitsu Furukawa

Proceedings Volume 10597, Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors, and 3D Systems II; 105970K (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2296453
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2018, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

We are developing a Multi Material 3D printer to print an object with different kind of soft and hard material in a single run. It is expected that the combination of printing soft and hard material will be a new kind of 3D printer. Our main printing material is conductive based soft filament made by our laboratory “Soft and Wet Matter Engineering Laboratory”, other different soft filament and hard plastic filament to create fully functional, multi material objects in a single printing run with greater variety and lower cost than other single material printing. In addition, we are developing a special type of Extruder, by using this we will be able to print both soft and hard material with one printer. This will be a new era of 3D printer. Such kind of 3D printer will possibly be a good STEM tool in medical sector and robotics.

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Samiul Basher, Kumkum Ahmed, Azusa Saito, Ajit Khosla, Masaru Kawakami, and Hidemitsu Furukawa "Development of multi-material 3D printer", Proc. SPIE 10597, Nano-, Bio-, Info-Tech Sensors, and 3D Systems II, 105970K (23 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2296453

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