Enabling Next Generation Additive Manufacturing

世纪的产品需要一套新的制造技术和材料工具;下一代多功能增材制造（AM）就是这样一种关键工具。作为新型智能、经济高效、功能性3D异构设备、产品和先进材料的推动者，它将成为未来工业应用和跨学科和领域的高级研究的重要工具。为了加速下一代增材制造，我们建立了一个跨机构、多学科的团队，涵盖基础/应用科学和工程，并与两个领先的国际研究小组和八个跨国行业合作伙伴合作。我们的愿景是建立受控的下一代多功能AM，并将其转化为工业和研究人员。最初专注于新的电子和制药/医疗保健应用，我们的目标是超越单一材料AM，利用潜力存款多种材料同时交付空间分辨功能和结构的三维（3D）。 由于物理状态、化学性质和相容性的潜在根本差异，我们的主要挑战是沉积材料的界面。该计划将侧重于克服3D中不同材料的空间控制共沉积的挑战，我们将建立建模和控制共沉积的新理解和方法。我们的研究成果将通过更高的TRL计划与我们的研究和工业合作伙伴网络以及更广泛的创新生态系统通过现有和未来的项目进行利用。

Twenty-first century products demand a new toolset of manufacturing techniques and materials; next generation multifunctional Additive Manufacturing (AM) is one such key tool. As an enabler for new smart, cost-effective, functional 3D heterogeneous devices, products and advanced materials, it will be an essential instrument for future industrial applications and advanced research across a wide spectrum of disciplines and sectors. To accelerate next-generation AM, we have established a multi-institution, multidisciplinary team which spans both basic/applied sciences and engineering and involves collaborations with two leading international research groups and eight multinational industry partners. Our vision is to establish controlled next generation multifunctional AM and translate this to industry and researchers. Initially focussing on novel electronic and pharmaceutical/healthcare applications, we aim to move beyond single material AM by exploiting the potential to deposit multiple materials contemporaneously for the delivery of spatially resolved function and structure in three dimensions (3D). Owing to potentially radical differences in physical state, chemistry and compatibility, our primary challenge is at the interface of the deposited materials. This programme will focus on overcoming the challenges of spatially controlled co-deposition of dissimilar materials in 3D and we will establish new understanding and methods of both modelling and controlling co-deposition. Exploitation of our findings will be undertaken through higher TRL schemes with our network of research and industrial partners and the wider innovation ecosystem through existing and future projects.