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Direct Ink Writing Printability – Ashby-Like Plots For Guided Design, Domenic Cipollone Jan 2022

Direct Ink Writing Printability – Ashby-Like Plots For Guided Design, Domenic Cipollone

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Direct Ink Writing (DIW), an extrusion-based 3D printing technique, offers a broad application space. As such, the technique continues to find use in biomedical, flexible electronic, ceramic, and energy device applications, among others. With this broad application space comes an expanding material library of inks with diverse rheological and microstructural properties. This begs the question: what constitutes a printable ink? How does one define printability? And how does one design for printability?

Researchers currently have a broad understanding of what constitutes a printable ink. However, time and time again, inks with unique rheological properties and formulations are printed. Currently, ink …