3D printing for chemical, pharmaceutical and biological applications

Capel, Andrew J.; Rimington, Rowan P.; Lewis, Mark P.; Christie, S.

doi:10.1038/s41570-018-0058-y

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“…3D printing has received increasing interest in the last decade, due to its flexibility and ability to design functional devices which can integrate catalytic functional materials . Periodic graphene aerogel microlattices with designed macroscopic architectures were created using the 3D‐printing technique, by developing a printable graphene‐based ink ( Figure 3 ).…”

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3D Carbon Materials for Efficient Oxygen and Hydrogen Electrocatalysis

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Jervis

Periasamy

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Advanced Energy Materials

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Sustainable energy production at an acceptable cost is key for its widespread application. At present, noble metals and metal oxides are the most widely used for electrocatalysis, but they suffer from low selectivity, poor durability, and scarcity. Because of this, metal‐free carbons have become the subject of great interest as promising alternative electrocatalysts for energy conversion and storage devices, and remarkable progress has been accomplished in the advance of metal‐free carbons as electrocatalysts for renewable energy technologies. Particularly interesting are 3D porous carbon architectures, which exhibit outstanding features for electrocatalysis applications, including broad range of active sites, interconnected porosity, high conductivity, and mechanical stability. This review summarizes the latest advances in 3D porous carbon structures for oxygen and hydrogen electrocatalysis. The structure–performance relationship of these materials is consequently rationalized and perspectives on creating more efficient 3D carbon electrocatalysts are suggested.

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3D Carbon Materials for Efficient Oxygen and Hydrogen Electrocatalysis

Sobrido

Jervis

Periasamy

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“…Currently, a large variety of thermoplastic materials can be extruded, ranging from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polylactic acid (PLA) to technopolymers, like polyetherether ketone (Peek) or polytherimide (Ultem). Thanks to their superior mechanical properties, these thermoplastics can be used to produce also structurally functional components that, by virtue of the relatively low-cost of the technology, have been used for a wide spectrum of innovative technological applications ranging from acoustics and mechanics [45], [46], [47] to biomedicine and pharmaceutics [48], [49], from electronics [50], [52] to social applications [53], [54].…”

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A novel layered topology of auxetic materials based on the tetrachiral honeycomb microstructure

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Microstructured honeycomb materials may exhibit exotic, extreme and tailorable mechanical properties, suited for innovative technological applications in a variety of modern engineering fields. The paper is focused on analysing the directional auxeticity of tetrachiral materials, through analytical, numerical and experimental methods. Theoretical predictions about the global elastic properties have been successfully validated by performing tensile laboratory tests on tetrachiral samples, realized with high precision 3D printing technologies. Inspired by the kinematic behaviour of the tetrachiral material, a newly-design bi-layered topology, referred to as bi-tetrachiral material, has been theoretically conceived and mechanically modelled. The novel topology virtuously exploits the mutual collaboration between two tetrachiral layers with opposite chiralities. The bi-tetrachiral material has been verified to outperform the tetrachiral material in terms of global Young modulus and, as major achievement, to exhibit a remarkable auxetic behaviour. Specifically, experimental results, confirmed by parametric analytical and computational analyses, have highlighted the effective possibility to attain strongly negative Poisson ratios, identified as a peculiar global elastic property of the novel bi-layered topology.

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“…More recently, three dimensional (3D) printing technology, a newly-emerged additive manufacturing strategy [4 8,4 9] , has gained increasing attention worldwide [50,51] . 3D printing technology can be widely used in the integral catalyst, mixer and reactor [52] . With the continuous development of 3D printing technology, printing accuracy and material performance have been significantly improved [53] .…”

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