Additive Manufacturing of Glass: From Science to Applications

ISBN-13: 9780323854887 / Angielski

Bastian E. Rapp; Frederik Kotz-Helmer

Opis

Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing of Glass: From Science to Applications presents a joint effort by the global glass 3D printing community, highlighting the current scientific, technological and application aspects of this exciting new field and its game changing potential for a wide array of industries in the coming decades. This text examines glass as the high-performance material of the 21st century—utilized in industries from high-performance computing to IT, architecture, labware and integrated optical devices for smart phones.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction 1. What are glasses? 2. The history of glass processing 3. 3D Printing Technologies 4. Additive Manufacturing: Market potential

Part 2: Melt derived glass 3D printing 5. Selective Laser Melting 6. Fused Deposition Modeling

Part 3: Sol-gel chemistry 7. Glasses by sol-gel chemistry 8. Direct ink deposition techniques 9. Photochemical approaches

Part 4: Etching based approached 10. Etching based glass structuring 11. Multiphoton-based etching

Part 5: Particle- and feedstock-based approaches 12. Slurry-based glass fabrication/3D printing 13. Glassomer process 14. Direct ink deposition techniques

Part 6: Applications and markets 15. Company technology and markets: FemtoPrint 16. Company technology and markets: LightFab 17. Company technology and markets: Micron3DP 18. Bioactive glasses 19. Architecture 20. Next-generation (micro-)optic 21. Glass Fiber fabrication 22. Lab-on-a-Chip