LAYMA NEXTGEN – Layered Atmospheric Material Application for the Next Generation of Functional 3D Printed Components

LAYMA NEXTGEN – 下一代功能性 3D 打印组件的分层大气材料应用

• 批准号: 106552
• 金额: $ 6.36万
• 依托单位: ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=106552
• 关键词: LAYMA; NEXTGEN; Layered; Atmospheric; Material

The proposed opportunity is to evaluate the technical feasibility of an Industry 4.0 compatible post-processing machine capable of adding a functionality to Additively Manufactured (AM) components. Current function-adding methods such as colouring and coating entail semi-manual production chains that are costly and time consuming. The proposed machine will simplify the part functionalising stage in additive manufacturing at scale.Current most popular function-adding systems include water-based pot colouring methods and manual coating. Both methods are extremely water-wasteful, energy-inefficient and labour-intensive.Additive Manufacturing Technologies Ltd (AMT), a Sheffield based manufacturer of smart industrial post-processing systems has invented and filed patents for a novel way to uniformly fuse material onto the polymer parts. The method can be used to colour Additively Manufactured (3D printed) parts or coat them with wide range of materials such as carbon nanotubes, antibacterial particles, metals, glass etc. The invented method uses zero water, green consumables and does not produce any waste.This technology would disrupt the global AM market by creating new generation of AM parts that can be used for high performance applications that were not possible before, e.g. novel battery/capacitor components, functional military or satellite parts.

建议的机会是评估与Industry 4.0兼容的后处理机的技术可行性，该后处理机能够为附加制造(AM)组件添加功能。目前的功能添加方法，如上色和涂层，需要半人工生产链，成本高，耗时长。建议的机器将简化大规模添加剂制造中的部件功能化阶段。目前最流行的功能添加系统包括水基锅着色法和手动涂布。这两种方法都非常浪费水、能源效率和劳动力密集型。总部位于谢菲尔德的智能工业后处理系统制造商Additive Manufacturing Technologies Ltd(AMT)发明了一种将材料均匀熔化到聚合物部件上的新方法并申请了专利。该方法可用于给添加制造(3D打印)的部件上色或在其上涂上各种材料，如碳纳米管、抗菌颗粒、金属、玻璃等。本发明的方法使用零水、绿色耗材，不会产生任何废物。这种技术将通过创造新一代AM部件来颠覆全球AM市场，这些部件可用于以前无法实现的高性能应用，例如新型电池/电容器部件、功能性军事或卫星部件。