The article deals with the peculiarities of using silicon micropowder as a chemically inert filler when creating photocurable resins (PCR) for laser stereolithography. The authors provide the results of their experiments on making three-dimensional parts from such resins and discuss the feasibility of transforming the parts from polymeric, containing a filler, into ceramic ones through annealing. The use of silicon allows for a two-fold increase in the mass of the ceramic component due to the interaction of silicon with air oxygen and with products resulting from the thermal decomposition of the photopolymer's polymer base.
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