Living Polymerization Enables Adaptable 3D Printing

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-26715
Published April 01, 2017 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
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  • English
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Three-dimensional printing technology makes it possible to rapidly manufacture objects by depositing layer upon layer of polymers in a precisely determined pattern. Once these objects are completed, the polymers that form the material are “dead” — that is, they cannot be extended to form new polymer chains.