Highly Stretchable and UV Curable Elastomers for Digital Light Processing Based 3D Printing

Dinesh K Patel; Amir Hosein Sakhaei; Michael Layani; Biao Zhang; Qi Ge; Shlomo Magdassi

doi:10.1002/adma.201606000

Highly Stretchable and UV Curable Elastomers for Digital Light Processing Based 3D Printing

Adv Mater. 2017 Apr;29(15). doi: 10.1002/adma.201606000. Epub 2017 Feb 7.

Authors

Dinesh K Patel¹, Amir Hosein Sakhaei², Michael Layani³, Biao Zhang², Qi Ge^{2

4}, Shlomo Magdassi¹

Affiliations

¹ Casali Center for Applied Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 9190401, Israel.
² Digital Manufacturing and Design Center, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, 487372, Singapore.
³ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore.
⁴ Science and Math Cluster, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, 487372, Singapore.

PMID: 28169466
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201606000

Abstract

Stretchable UV-curable (SUV) elastomers can be stretched by up to 1100% and are suitable for digital-light-processing (DLP)-based 3D-printing technology. DLP printing of these SUV elastomers enables the direct creation of highly deformable complex 3D hollow structures such as balloons, soft actuators, grippers, and buckyball electronical switches.

Keywords: 3D printing; UV curable; highly stretchable elastomer; soft robotics; stretchable electronics.