Fabrication of fluidic reactors by a customized 3D printing process
| Autor: | Paolo Neri, Salvatore Miceli, Sandro Barone, Marcello Braglia, Alessandro Paoli, Roberto Gabbrielli, Armando Viviano Razionale |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Chemical process
Computer science Additive manufacturing Microfluidics fluidic reactor laser-based stereolithograpy DLP 3D printing Mechanical engineering 3D printing 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences law.invention law Fluidics Stereolithography Earth-Surface Processes Flexibility (engineering) business.industry 010401 analytical chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 0104 chemical sciences Digital Light Processing 0210 nano-technology business Microfabrication |
| Popis: | Microfluidic systems demonstrated to improve the analysis of biological and chemical processes by providing a more controlled fluid-handling environment. Typically, microfluidic systems are created in monolithic form by means of microfabrication techniques that constrain designers to work in a two-dimensional space. In this regard, Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a powerful set of technologies that can deal with the complexity of 3D structures producing flow paths with sections differing in size and direction. In this work, the use of a commercial laser-based stereolithography 3D printer has been firstly explored to fabricate transparent channels for flow reactors. A custom 3D printer, based on Digital Light Processing Stereolithography (DLP-SLA), has then been developed with the aim at gaining flexibility and overcoming typical limitations raised from standard commercial solutions. The effectiveness of the developed DLP-SLA 3D printer has been experienced by printing transparent fluidic devices with embedded channels with a specifically designed three-step printing process. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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