The physics of 3D printing with light

P Somers, A Münchinger, S Maruo, C Moser… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The goal of 3D printing is to realize complex 3D structures by locally adding material in small
volume elements called voxels—in contrast to successively subtracting material by etching …

From light to structure: photo initiators for radical two‐photon polymerization

T Wloka, M Gottschaldt… - Chemistry–A European …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Two‐photon polymerization (2PP) represents a powerful technique for the
fabrication of precise three‐dimensional structures on a micro‐and nanometer scale for …

Rapid, continuous projection multi-photon 3D printing enabled by spatiotemporal focusing of femtosecond pulses

P Somers, Z Liang, JE Johnson… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
There is demand for scaling up 3D printing throughput, especially for the multi-photon 3D
printing process that provides sub-micrometer structuring capabilities required in diverse …

Challenges and opportunities in 3D laser printing based on (1+ 1)-photon absorption

V Hahn, NM Bojanowski, P Rietz, F Feist… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Most light-based 3D printing methods rely on optical or chemical nonlinearities to spatially
confine the polymerization reaction. In 3D micro-and nanoprinting, this nonlinearity can be …

A 3D nanoscale optical disk memory with petabit capacity

M Zhao, J Wen, Q Hu, X Wei, YW Zhong, H Ruan, M Gu - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
High-capacity storage technologies are needed to meet our ever-growing data demands,.
However, data centres based on major storage technologies such as semiconductor flash …

3D nanopolymerization and damage threshold dependence on laser wavelength and pulse duration

D Samsonas, E Skliutas, A Čiburys, L Kontenis… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
The dependence of the polymerization and optical damage thresholds in multi-photon
polymerization (MPP) lithography was studied using a broadly-tunable laser system with …

End-functionalized polymers by controlled/living radical polymerizations: synthesis and applications

D Zhou, LW Zhu, BH Wu, ZK Xu, LS Wan - Polymer Chemistry, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The precise design of polymers with well-defined end functionality has received great
interest for synthesizing polymeric materials with advanced or distinctive properties. In the …

Ketocoumarin-based photoinitiators for high-sensitivity two-photon lithography

J Tang, X Xu, X Shen, C Kuang, H Chen… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ketocoumarins are attractive and distinct photosensitizers due to their high molar extinction
coefficients, high intersystem crossing coefficients, and high photochemical stability. As a …

STED-Inspired Cationic Photoinhibition Lithography

S Islam, M Sangermano, TA Klar - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Direct laser writing by two-photon lithography has been enhanced substantially during the
past two decades by techniques borrowed from stimulated emission depletion (STED) …

Photoinitiators with low migration capability based on benzophenone

W Li, J Nie, Y Zhao, X Zhu - European Polymer Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the increasing safety concerns caused by migration of photoinitiators, the
development of low migration photoinitiators has become a priority in the current stage. As a …