The Development of an All-polymer-based Piezoelectric Photocurable Resin for Additive Manufacturing

Xiangfan Chen; Henry Oliver T. Ware; Evan Baker; Weishen Chu; Jianmin Hu; Cheng Sun

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2017.04.025

The Development of an All-polymer-based Piezoelectric Photocurable Resin for Additive Manufacturing

Xiangfan Chen, Henry Oliver T. Ware, Evan Baker, Weishen Chu, Jianmin Hu, Cheng Sun^*

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Abstract

In this work, we report the development of an all-polymer-based piezoelectric photocurable resin (V-Ink) suitable for additive manufacturing processes based on light-controlled polymerization techniques. By taking into account the trade off between the manufacturability and piezoelectric characteristics, the optimized V-Ink contains 35 wt.% of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) particles being suspended in the photocurable resin. We have successfully demonstrated a 3D printed piezoelectrically-active thick film with an optimized piezoelectric voltage coefficient (g₃₃) of 105.12 × 10^-3 V·m/N. We envision this new materials will bring promising opportunities for additive manufacturing of flexible functional devices, especially for novel applications in biosensing and detection.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	157-162
Number of pages	6
Journal	Procedia CIRP
Volume	65
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.04.025
State	Published - 2017
Event	3rd CIRP Conference on BioManufacturing 2017 - Chicago, United States Duration: Jul 11 2017 → Jul 14 2017

Funding

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant number EEC-1530734 and DBI-1353952. The work used the Northwestern University Micro/Nano Fabrication Facility (NUFAB), which is supported by the State of Illinois and Northwestern University.

Keywords

additive manufacturing
all-polymer-based
piezoelectric photocurable resin
projection stereolithography

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Control and Systems Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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