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Low-Temperature Additive Manufacturing of Glass
(3D printing) holds promise for fabricating complex glass structures that would be unattainable with traditional glass manufacturing techniques. Lincoln Laboratory’s innovative approach allows additive manufacturing of multimaterial glass items without the need for costly high-temperature processing techniques.
Our low-temperature technique could facilitate the widespread adoption of 3D printing for glass devices such as microfluidic systems, free-form optical lenses or fiber, and high-temperature electronic components. Using inorganic composite glasses solves many of the instability issues and offers a promising approach to create structures with diverse shapes and properties. Following heat treatment, the structure is rinsed in an organic solvent to remove residual mineral, leaving a fully inorganic silica item.
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