Enhanced volumetric additive manufacturing via Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) polymerization
Eduards Krumins, Yaxuan Sun, Long Jiang, Vincenzo Taresco, Daniel J. Keddie, Ricky D. Wildman, Hayden Taylor, Derek J. Irvine · 2026
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Description
Eduards Krumins's team tamed the heat problem in volumetric 3D printing by introducing RAFT polymerisation into computed axial lithography, which prints whole objects in seconds from projected light. Conventional free-radical printing runs hot, rising more than sixty degrees, triggering runaway acceleration that blurs prints and limits size.
Regulating chain length during growth kept reaction kinetics steady and suppressed the sharp viscosity jump of the older method, with thermal monitoring confirming a much smaller heat rise. RAFT chemistry also allowed post-print functionalisation, opening shapes the old process could not make and widening volumetric printing's chemical range.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Eduards Krumins, Yaxuan Sun, Long Jiang, Vincenzo Taresco, Daniel J. Keddie, Ricky D. Wildman, Hayden Taylor, Derek J. Irvine |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |