Sustainable Materials and Chemical Processes for Additive Manufacturing

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02008
• Publication Date: 2020-08-03T18:39:15Z
• Authors: Eva Sanchez-Rexach; Trevor G. Johnston; Coralie Jehanno; Haritz Sardon; Alshakim Nelson
• Keywords: Chemical industry

Additive manufacturing (AM) is energizing the fields of chemistry and materials science to develop new inks for applications within such as aerospace, robotics, healthcare. AM enables fabrication innumerable 3D geometries that cannot be easily produced by other means. In spite great promise an advanced form future manufacturing, there are still fundamental challenges with respect sustainability need addressed. Some material needs include sustainable sources printing inks, resins, filaments, well pathways polymer recycling, upcycling, chemical circularity. Furthermore, combination biosourced biodegradable polymers additive could enable objects can recycled back into feedstock or degraded nontoxic products after they have served their function. Herein, we review recent literature on design field AM, a particular focus polymers. We also discuss some sustainability-related emerged result technologies.