INS11-0454
“You Can’t 3D Print That” as an Inspiration for New Technologies
Topic
S11. PMSE–PSK50 Anniversary Symposium: Advancing Polymer Science for a Sustainable and Intelligent Future
When and Where
Oct 1, 2026
10:20 - 10:45
Room 110
Session Chairs
Christopher SOLES
Christopher M STAFFORD
Presenter(s)
AJ Boydston (University of Wisconsin)
Co-Author(s)
Abstract
Multimaterial additive manufacturing attracts and inspires multidisciplinary approaches for combining disparate materials into single parts. Approaches span a range of chemical “bottom-up” techniques, engineering “top-down” technologies, and hybridized manufacturing strategies. With an emphasis on the underlying chemistry of vat-based additive manufacturing, we will discuss our most recent efforts toward incorporating combinations of organic and inorganic materials into the same printed part. Our approach involves a technique we refer to as Multimaterial Actinic Spatial Control (MASC) and leverages chemical orthogonality and selectivity that can be spatially controlled via different wavelengths of light. In this way, the use of multiwavelength projection systems in vat-based additive manufacturing enables access to multimaterial parts that ultimately contain highly disparate organic (soft, flexible, insulating) and metallic (stiff, ductile, conductive) domains with full three-dimensional control over their placement.
