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      Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Materials: Progress, Promise and Challenges

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          The use of additive manufacturing (AM) has moved well beyond prototyping and has been established as a highly versatile manufacturing method with demonstrated potential to completely transform traditional manufacturing in the future. In this paper, a comprehensive review and critical analyses of the recent advances and achievements in the field of different AM processes for polymers, their composites and nanocomposites, elastomers and multi materials, shape memory polymers and thermo-responsive materials are presented. Moreover, their applications in different fields such as bio-medical, electronics, textiles, and aerospace industries are also discussed. We conclude the article with an account of further research needs and future perspectives of AM process with polymeric materials.

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          Polymers for 3D Printing and Customized Additive Manufacturing

          Samuel Clark Ligon, Robert Liska, Jürgen Stampfl … (2017)
          Additive manufacturing (AM) alias 3D printing translates computer-aided design (CAD) virtual 3D models into physical objects. By digital slicing of CAD, 3D scan, or tomography data, AM builds objects layer by layer without the need for molds or machining. AM enables decentralized fabrication of customized objects on demand by exploiting digital information storage and retrieval via the Internet. The ongoing transition from rapid prototyping to rapid manufacturing prompts new challenges for mechanical engineers and materials scientists alike. Because polymers are by far the most utilized class of materials for AM, this Review focuses on polymer processing and the development of polymers and advanced polymer systems specifically for AM. AM techniques covered include vat photopolymerization (stereolithography), powder bed fusion (SLS), material and binder jetting (inkjet and aerosol 3D printing), sheet lamination (LOM), extrusion (FDM, 3D dispensing, 3D fiber deposition, and 3D plotting), and 3D bioprinting. The range of polymers used in AM encompasses thermoplastics, thermosets, elastomers, hydrogels, functional polymers, polymer blends, composites, and biological systems. Aspects of polymer design, additives, and processing parameters as they relate to enhancing build speed and improving accuracy, functionality, surface finish, stability, mechanical properties, and porosity are addressed. Selected applications demonstrate how polymer-based AM is being exploited in lightweight engineering, architecture, food processing, optics, energy technology, dentistry, drug delivery, and personalized medicine. Unparalleled by metals and ceramics, polymer-based AM plays a key role in the emerging AM of advanced multifunctional and multimaterial systems including living biological systems as well as life-like synthetic systems.
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            A. Sydney Gladman, Elisabetta Matsumoto, Ralph G Nuzzo … (2016)
            Shape-morphing systems can be found in many areas, including smart textiles, autonomous robotics, biomedical devices, drug delivery and tissue engineering. The natural analogues of such systems are exemplified by nastic plant motions, where a variety of organs such as tendrils, bracts, leaves and flowers respond to environmental stimuli (such as humidity, light or touch) by varying internal turgor, which leads to dynamic conformations governed by the tissue composition and microstructural anisotropy of cell walls. Inspired by these botanical systems, we printed composite hydrogel architectures that are encoded with localized, anisotropic swelling behaviour controlled by the alignment of cellulose fibrils along prescribed four-dimensional printing pathways. When combined with a minimal theoretical framework that allows us to solve the inverse problem of designing the alignment patterns for prescribed target shapes, we can programmably fabricate plant-inspired architectures that change shape on immersion in water, yielding complex three-dimensional morphologies.
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              Embedded 3D printing of strain sensors within highly stretchable elastomers.

              Joseph T Muth, Daniel Vogt, Ryan Truby … (2014)
              A new method, embedded-3D printing (e-3DP), is reported for fabricating strain sensors within highly conformal and extensible elastomeric matrices. e-3DP allows soft sensors to be created in nearly arbitrary planar and 3D motifs in a highly programmable and seamless manner. Several embodiments are demonstrated and sensor performance is characterized. © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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                Contributors
                Arantxa Eceiza Mendiguren: Role: Academic Editor
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Polymers (Basel)
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Polymers (Basel)
                Journal ID (publisher-id): polymers
                Title: Polymers
                Publisher: MDPI
                ISSN (Electronic): 2073-4360
                Publication date (Electronic): 28 February 2021
                Publication date Collection: March 2021
                Volume: 13
                Issue: 5
                Electronic Location Identifier: 753
                Affiliations
                [1 ]School of Engineering, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne 3000, Australia; s3459013@ 123456student.rmit.edu.au (S.S.A.); namita.choudhury@ 123456rmit.edu.au (N.R.C.)
                [2 ]School of Engineering, Manufacturing, Materials and Mechatronics, RMIT University, Bundoora 3083, Australia; sabu.john@ 123456rmit.edu.au
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                [* ]Correspondence: naba.dutta@ 123456rmit.edu.au ; Tel.: +61-399250322
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4800-1910
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                Publisher ID: polymers-13-00753
                DOI: 10.3390/polym13050753
                PMC ID: 7957542
                PubMed ID: 33670934
                SO-VID: 7a56150c-d0ed-4f54-8d03-345755ffd26f
                Copyright © © 2021 by the authors.
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                Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

                History
                Date received : 03 January 2021
                Date accepted : 25 February 2021
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                Subject: Review

                Keywords: additive manufacturing,polymer,3d printing,4d printing,composite materials,smart materials,polymer composites
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                Keywords: additive manufacturing, polymer, 3d printing, 4d printing, composite materials, smart materials, polymer composites

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