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US 9,821,339 B2Granted
System and method for digital fabrication of graded, hierarchical material structures
AssigneePalo Alto Research Center Incorporated
InventorsJohn Steven Paschkewitz, Gabriel Iftime, Victor Alfred Beck, David Mathew Johnson
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Abstract
A method to fabricate hierarchical graded materials includes providing a reservoir of functionalized particles, mixing at least some of the functionalized particles using a mixer in the print head having a mixed fluid volume control on an order of a voxel to produce mixed functionalized particles, and actuating a print head to deposit the mixed functionalized particles on a substrate.
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A method to fabricate hierarchical graded materials, comprising:
- providing a reservoir of functionalized particles;
- mixing at least some of the functionalized particles using a mixer in the print head having a mixed fluid volume control on an order of a voxel to produce mixed functionalized particles;
- applying a stimulus to the mixed functionalized particles inside the print head to reactively bond the functionalized particles and form particles of varying lengths;
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- actuating a print head to deposit the particles of varying lengths on a substrate.
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