TY - GEN
T1 - Formulation of Curable Resins Utilized in Stereolithography
AU - Bird, David
AU - Caravaca, Elbert
AU - Laquidara, Joseph
AU - Luhmann, Keith
AU - Ravindra, Nuggehalli M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Formulating UV curable resins for Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is an area that spans various industrial sectors from adhesives, inks and optical fibers to nanotechnology and biomaterials. UV curable resins such as epoxides, vinyl ethers and acrylates are also important monomers that offer effective media for energetic materials. The potential exists to develop environmentally friendly formulations with suspended energetic materials at various solid loading levels. Developing techniques for UV curing formulations of highly loaded energetic suspensions is a challenging feat that must satisfy several requirements and produce a high-quality formulation with synergistic ingredient combinations to enhance propulsion phenomena. The candidate formulation must be able to operate in a sterolithography (SLA) resin tank, meaning the suspension must be at least as fluidic as conventional SLA resins; and a thorough understanding of the polymerization cure kinetics, photoinitiation and cure depth is required. This is due to the fact that these are dominating factors for processing and formation of polymer network structure that exhibits good mechanical properties.
AB - Formulating UV curable resins for Additive Manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, is an area that spans various industrial sectors from adhesives, inks and optical fibers to nanotechnology and biomaterials. UV curable resins such as epoxides, vinyl ethers and acrylates are also important monomers that offer effective media for energetic materials. The potential exists to develop environmentally friendly formulations with suspended energetic materials at various solid loading levels. Developing techniques for UV curing formulations of highly loaded energetic suspensions is a challenging feat that must satisfy several requirements and produce a high-quality formulation with synergistic ingredient combinations to enhance propulsion phenomena. The candidate formulation must be able to operate in a sterolithography (SLA) resin tank, meaning the suspension must be at least as fluidic as conventional SLA resins; and a thorough understanding of the polymerization cure kinetics, photoinitiation and cure depth is required. This is due to the fact that these are dominating factors for processing and formation of polymer network structure that exhibits good mechanical properties.
KW - 3D printing
KW - Additive manufacturing
KW - Energetic materials
KW - Steeolithography
KW - UV curable resins
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-05861-6_148
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-05861-6_148
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85064884311
SN - 9783030058609
T3 - Minerals, Metals and Materials Series
SP - 1575
EP - 1587
BT - TMS 2019 148th Annual Meeting and Exhibition Supplemental Proceedings
PB - Springer International Publishing
T2 - 148th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, TMS 2019
Y2 - 10 March 2019 through 14 March 2019
ER -