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Recent progress in acoustic field-assisted 3D-printing of functional composite materials

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Acoustic forces are an attractive pathway to achieve directed assembly for multi-phase materials via additive processes. Programmatic integration of microstructure and structural features during deposition offers opportunities for optimizing printed component performance. We detail recent efforts to integrate acoustic focusing with a direct-ink-write mode of printing to modulate material transport properties (e.g., conductivity). Acoustic field-assisted printing, operating under a multi-node focusing condition, supports deposition of materials with multiple focused lines in a single-pass printed line. Here, we report the demonstration of acoustic focusing in concert with diffusive self-assembly to rapidly assembly and print multiscale, mm-length colloidal solids on a timescale of seconds to minutes. These efforts support the promising capabilities of acoustic field-assisted deposition-based printing to achieve spatial control of printed microstructures with deterministic, long-range ordering across multiple length scales.

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    Tyler R. Ray

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D.M., M.B., D.S.G., and T.R.R. declare that patent applications based on this work have been submitted to the University of California, Santa Barbara. All authors declare no additional conflicts of interest.

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Johnson, K., Melchert, D., Gianola, D.S. et al. Recent progress in acoustic field-assisted 3D-printing of functional composite materials. MRS Advances 6, 636–643 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-021-00090-5

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