3D printing glass with metastable silicates
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
11 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. EST
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Devon Beck, Assistant Staff
Advanced Materials and Microsystems Group
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Additive manufacturing of glass allows the fabrication of complex structures and geometries that traditional approaches cannot achieve. However, current strategies for 3D printing glass require thermal processes over 1000°C to produce functional parts.
Beck will describe the development of low temperature process to 3D print glass and multimaterial composite glasses based on metastable silicate chemistry. The direct-write deposition process occurs at room temperature and the curing process only requires 250°C to achieve a stable glass structure. The properties of the printed glass can further be tailored in a plug-and-play fashion by introducing functional filler materials such as conductive particles.
This straight-forward strategy will enable the fabrication of a wide variety of microfluidic, electronic, and radio frequency devices with higher thermal stability without the need for extensive thermal processing.