High‐Speed 3D Printing of High‐Performance Thermosetting Polymers via Two‐Stage Curing

Rheological Testing of Thermosetting Polymers

Polymers for 3D Printing and Customized Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing (AM) alias 3D printing translates computer-aided design (CAD) virtual 3D models into physical objects. By digital slicing of CAD, 3D scan, or tomography data, AM builds objects layer by layer without the need for molds or machining. AM enables decentralized fabrication of customized objects on demand by exploiting digital information storage and retrieval via the Internet...

Soft Somatosensitive Actuators via Embedded 3D Printing.

Humans possess manual dexterity, motor skills, and other physical abilities that rely on feedback provided by the somatosensory system. Herein, a method is reported for creating soft somatosensitive actuators (SSAs) via embedded 3D printing, which are innervated with multiple conductive features that simultaneously enable haptic, proprioceptive, and thermoceptive sensing. This novel manufacturi...

Bat echolocation behavior from highspeed 3D video

As part of the ChiRoPing research project1 we have been observing the 3D position and orientation of several different species of bats, as well as making measurements of different aspects of their bodies. The long-term goal is to understand what the bats are doing during echolocation, identification and tracking of prey, so that robot sonar sensors with a comparable level of performance can be ...

New Insights into Structure - Property Relationships in Thermosetting Polymers from

Studies of the physical properties of the co-cured networks formed from three similar dicyanate ester monomers revealed a number of unexpected variations from simple linear mixing rules. These variations shed light on important synergistic effects in co-cured thermosetting networks and their possible causes. The monomers utilized were the dicyanate esters of Bisphenol A (BADCy), Bisphenol E (LE...