Materials For 3D Printing and Beyond

Creating an extensive palette of reactive materials to digitally-fabricate new multi-material composites with both homogeneous and heterogeneous properties

Materials Development to fabricate electro-mechanical systems and materials

I have developed a palette of materials with many different Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical properties compatible with multi-material inkjet printing.

Listed below are some of the main classes of materials that I use in my work which are all mutually-compatible with each other to exist within the same structure:

1) Many types of UV-reactive "Build" Materials: Rigid & Tough, Soft & highly-stretchable

2) Electronic Materials which are UV or Thermally reactive at below 90C:

Highly-conductive pure-silver traces, organic semiconductors, resistive inks, high-k dielectrics and Solid-State Electrolytes

3) Hydrogels: Biocompatible, Highly-transparent, Soft and Stretchable, Ionically-conductive

I also carry out very extensive materials testing of many types as part of my development process:

Mechanical testing (dynamic and quasi-static, viscoelastic testing, fatigue)
Electronic testing (conductivity, semiconducting behavior, RF and LCR measurements)
Droplet Characterization for inkjet printing
Rheology (rheometer, viscometer surface-tension analysis)
Microscopy (laser-scanning, SEM)

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