Additive manufacturing (AM) is positioned to become a key technology in an age of personalized medicine and highly targeted therapies. Also known as 3D printing, AM has advantages over traditional manufacturing techniques such as injection molding and thermoforming. Advantages for medical devices and implants include mass customization, on-demand inventory, and the formation of complex geometries. However, material properties and surface quality have mostly limited AM to applications where fit and accuracy are prioritized over performance. In 2015, Carbon, Inc. published continuous liquid interface printing (CLIP) and has since introduced several classes of “dual-cure” photopolymer resins with the goal of achieving economical print speeds with production quality materials. Today, Carbon’s propriety Digital Light Synthesis (DLS) technology governs all aspects of part production from 3D model to final part. This presentation will discuss novel AM materials and processes in the context of biomedical applications.

Digital manufacturing for biomedical applications

255th National Meeting (2018)

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