Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing

Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing: Fundamentals, Applications, and Trends provides a complete overview of these cutting-edge 3D-printing techniques, the materials they’re capable of producing, and how best those techniques and materials can be applied. The first section of the book covers the fundamentals, with chapters discussing the core principles of vat photopolymerization, related technological requirements, the characteristics of digital light processing (DLP) and stereolithography (SL) compared to other light-induced methods, as well as the chemistry and materials used in the processes, including how to formulate a resin. Section two covers applications, such as design for structural applications, as well as DLP and SL use in dentistry, soft robotics, sensors, biomedicine, microfluidics, catalysis and chemical engineering, and more. The book concludes with a section discussing current trends and future directions for the technology, with chapters analyzing sustainable materials including efforts to substitute synthetic materials with bio-based ones, vitrimers, controlled polymers, and 4D printing and DLP and SL in hybrid AM.

• Covers the fundamental aspects of digital light processing (DLP) and stereolithographic (SL) additive manufacturing (AM), including chemical approaches, technical parameters, guidelines to compound printable inks, and the pros and cons of these methods compared to others
• Features various applications of the methods and materials produced
• Discusses sustainable materials, 4D printing, and hybrid manufacturing