Stereolithography with micron scale control of properties
AssigneeThe Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate
InventorsRobert R. McLeod, Camila Uzcategui, John Elliott Hergert, Archish Muralidharan
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Abstract
Stereolithography with micron scale control of properties is described herein. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for 3-D printing of a material can include generating a functional relation predicting one or more physical properties of the material resulting from printing parameters; algebraically or numerically solving the functional relation to generate a second functional relation predicting expected printing parameters resulting in the one or more physical properties; and printing the material via a photopolymerization printer according to the set of printing parameters determined by the second functional relation.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for 3-dimensional (3-D) printing of a material, the method comprising:
- generating a functional relation predicting one or more physical properties of the material resulting from printing parameters;
- algebraically or numerically solving the functional relation to generate a second functional relation predicting expected printing parameters resulting in the one or more physical properties;
- and
- printing the material via a photopolymerization printer according to the set of printing parameters determined by the second functional relation.
A composition
- (a) that is produced by printing a plurality of layers of a 3-D printed material via a photopolymerization printer according to a gradient design on the micronscale or
- (b) comprising a photopolymerized 3-D printed material comprising a preselected gradient design on the micronscale.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions executable by a processor for printing a material, the instructions comprising:
- generate a functional relation predicting one or more physical properties of the material resulting from printing parameters;
- algebraically or numerically solve the functional relation to generate a second functional relation predicting expected printing parameters resulting in the one or more physical properties;
- and
- print the material via a photopolymerization printer according to the set of printing parameters determined by the second functional relation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.