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Additive Manufacturing Technologies Based on Photopolymerization

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The rapid progress of additive manufacturing (AM) allows the digital design and rapid prototy** of three-dimensional (3D) microstructures, which have promoted the development of optics, electronics, mechanics, and medicine. Among the current strategies for AM, photopolymerization, which takes advantage of the light reaction for photocurable polymers, has shown significant benefits for high-resolution printing of objects with complex geometrical configurations. In this book chapter, we review the development process of AM technologies based on photopolymerization. Digital projection lithography (DPL) and direct laser writing (DLW) are included to summarize the advantages and disadvantages in throughput and resolution. Finally, the current challenges of these emerging methods and their applications in biomedical engineering are presented.

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Ding, H., Zhao, X., Gu, Z. (2021). Additive Manufacturing Technologies Based on Photopolymerization. In: Zhao, X., Lu, M. (eds) Nanophotonics in Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6137-5_9

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