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. 2017 Apr;29(15).
doi: 10.1002/adma.201606000. Epub 2017 Feb 7.

Highly Stretchable and UV Curable Elastomers for Digital Light Processing Based 3D Printing

Dinesh K Patel  1 , Amir Hosein Sakhaei  2 , Michael Layani  3 , Biao Zhang  2 , Qi Ge  2   4 , Shlomo Magdassi  1
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Highly Stretchable and UV Curable Elastomers for Digital Light Processing Based 3D Printing

Dinesh K Patel et al. Adv Mater. 2017 Apr.

Abstract

Stretchable UV-curable (SUV) elastomers can be stretched by up to 1100% and are suitable for digital-light-processing (DLP)-based 3D-printing technology. DLP printing of these SUV elastomers enables the direct creation of highly deformable complex 3D hollow structures such as balloons, soft actuators, grippers, and buckyball electronical switches.

Keywords: 3D printing; UV curable; highly stretchable elastomer; soft robotics; stretchable electronics.

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