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3D/4D Printing of Polymers: Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), and Stereolithography (SLA)
- Title
- 3D/4D Printing of Polymers: Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), and Stereolithography (SLA)
- Creator(s)
- Kafle, Abishek
- Luis, Eric
- Silwal, Raman
- Pan, Houwen Matthew
- Shrestha, Pratisthit Lal
- Bastola, Anil Kumar
- Date
- 2021
- Is Part Of
- Polymers
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 18
- Pages
- 3101
- Language
- eng
- ISSN
- 2073-4360
- Short Title
- 3D/4D Printing of Polymers
- Abstract
- Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing is a digital manufacturing process and offers virtually limitless opportunities to develop structures/objects by tailoring material composition, processing conditions, and geometry technically at every point in an object. In this review, we present three different early adopted, however, widely used, polymer-based 3D printing processes; fused deposition modelling (FDM), selective laser sintering (SLS), and stereolithography (SLA) to create polymeric parts. The main aim of this review is to offer a comparative overview by correlating polymer material-process-properties for three different 3D printing techniques. Moreover, the advanced material-process requirements towards 4D printing via these print methods taking an example of magneto-active polymers is covered. Overall, this review highlights different aspects of these printing methods and serves as a guide to select a suitable print material and 3D print technique for the targeted polymeric material-based applications and also discusses the implementation practices towards 4D printing of polymer-based systems with a current state-of-the-art approach.
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