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  • Rapid Software-Based Design and Optical Transient Liquid Molding of Microparticles.

Rapid Software-Based Design and Optical Transient Liquid Molding of Microparticles.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) (2015-10-29)
Chueh-Yu Wu, Keegan Owsley, Dino Di Carlo
ABSTRACT

Microparticles with complex 3D shape and composition are produced using a novel fabrication method, optical transient liquid molding, in which a 2D light pattern exposes a photopolymer precursor stream shaped along the flow axis by software-aided inertial flow engineering.

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