Journal article

Dynamic interface printing

Callum Vidler, Michael Halwes, Kirill Kolesnik, Philipp Segeritz, Matthew Mail, Anders J Barlow, Emmanuelle M Koehl, Anand Ramakrishnan, Lilith M Caballero Aguilar, David R Nisbet, Daniel J Scott, Daniel E Heath, Kenneth B Crozier, David J Collins

NATURE | NATURE PORTFOLIO | Published : 2024

Abstract

Additive manufacturing is an expanding multidisciplinary field encompassing applications including medical devices1, aerospace components2, microfabrication strategies3,4 and artificial organs5. Among additive manufacturing approaches, light-based printing technologies, including two-photon polymerization6, projection micro stereolithography7,8 and volumetric printing9,10,11,12,13,14, have garnered significant attention due to their speed, resolution or potential applications for biofabrication. Here we introduce dynamic interface printing, a new 3D printing approach that leverages an acoustically modulated, constrained air–liquid boundary to rapidly generate centimetre-scale 3D structures w..

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (Ideas)


Awarded by Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems


Funding Acknowledgements

We thank R. Dagastine for his continuous support of the project and K. Brenner for her help with manuscript proofreading. We would also like to acknowledge that this work was performed in part at the Materials Characterisation and Fabrication Platform at the University of Melbourne and the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. D.J.C. is the recipient of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council (Award No. DE200100909; Discovery Project, DP230102550) and of funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (Ideas, APP2003446). D.E.H. is the recipient of a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (FT190100280). K.B.C. acknowledges funding from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (Project No. CE200100010). D.R.N. is the recipient of a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (FT230100220). We would also like to acknowledge that this project was partially supported by the Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne Innovation Acceleration Program.