Multimaterial 3D Printing Technology
by Jiquan Yang, Li Na, Jianping Shi, Wenlai Tang, Gang Zhang, Feng Zhang
Preface
3D printing (also known as additive manufacturing) is a parallel design and manufacturing technology that integrates materials, structures, and functions. It has a wide range of applications in industry, medicine, and education. Although 3D printing can be used to make customized items with complicated structures, the commonly used basic 3D printing can only make objects from one material. Items in our everyday life and many industrial products, however, consist of a variety of materials. In the 3D printing community, we call such items heterogeneous objects (HEOs). Traditional manufacturing methods are often ineffective for making HEOs. Nevertheless, beyond basic 3D printing, nowadays HEOs can be made using advanced 3D printing technology. ...
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