Journal: Polymers

Article Title: Performance of Fabrics with 3D-Printed Photosensitive Acrylic Resin on the Surface

doi: 10.3390/polym16040486

Figure Lengend Snippet: Schematic of 3D polyjet printing on textiles. Fabric is placed on a build tray and the jetting head releases a photosensitive polymeric resin that is subsequently cured by UV light (authors’ image).

Article Snippet: However, it was Stratasys, Ltd. that further developed this printing technique and introduced a 3D polyjet printer suitable for printing on textiles in 2019 [ , ].

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Journal: Nature Communications

Article Title: Bioinspired rational design of bi-material 3D printed soft-hard interfaces

doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43422-9

Figure Lengend Snippet: a The standard tensile test specimens furnished with a functional gradient connecting the hard and soft polymer phases through linear functions of hard phase volume fraction ( \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\rho$$\end{document} ρ ) (out-of-plane thickness = 4 mm). These designs were 3D printed using a Polyjet multi-material 3D printer. b All the initial designs with different functional gradient widths ( \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${W}_{\rm {{G}}}$$\end{document} W G ) and their calculated percentage of the soft–hard normal contact area ( \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${A}_{\rm {{c}}}$$\end{document} A c ). We combined three different values of the gradient length ( \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${W}_{\rm {{G}}}$$\end{document} W G ) with five different unit cell geometries (i.e., Octo, Diamonds, Gyroids, collagen-like helices, and randomly distributed particles).

Article Snippet: We used a Polyjet multi-material 3D printer (ObjetJ735 Connex3, Stratasys® Ltd., USA) with voxel-level control to manufacture our biomimetic soft–hard interfaces.

Techniques: Functional Assay, Polymer