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Enhancing the 3D printing fidelity of vat photopolymerization with machine learning-driven boundary prediction (2024)
Journal Article
Ma, Y., Tian, Z., Wang, B., Zhao, Y., Nie, Y., Wildman, R., …He, Y. (2024). Enhancing the 3D printing fidelity of vat photopolymerization with machine learning-driven boundary prediction. Materials and Design, 241, Article 112978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112978

Like many pixel-based additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, digital light processing (DLP) based vat pho-topolymerization faces the challenge that the square pixel based processing strategy can lead to zigzag edges especially when feature sizes com... Read More about Enhancing the 3D printing fidelity of vat photopolymerization with machine learning-driven boundary prediction.

Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient (2024)
Journal Article
Rivers, G., Lion, A., Rofiqoh Eviana Putri, N., Rance, G., Moloney, C., Taresco, V., …He, Y. (in press). Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient. Materials Today Advances,

Additive manufacturing offers manufacture of personalised pharmaceutical tablets through design freedoms and material deposition control at an individual voxel level. This control goes beyond geometry and materials choices: inkjet based 3D printing e... Read More about Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient.

Glycerol-based sustainably sourced resin for volumetric printing (2024)
Journal Article
Krumins, E., Lentz, J. C., Sutcliffe, B., Sohaib, A., Jacob, P. L., Brugnoli, B., …Taresco, V. (2024). Glycerol-based sustainably sourced resin for volumetric printing. Green Chemistry, 26(3), 1345-1355. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3gc03607c

Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (VAM) represents a revolutionary advancement in the field of Additive Manufacturing, as it allows for the creation of objects in a single, cohesive process, rather than in a layer-by-layer approach. This innovative t... Read More about Glycerol-based sustainably sourced resin for volumetric printing.

Preventing thermal osteonecrosis through 3D printed ceramic grinding tool (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, B., Zhao, Y., Liu, G., Thein, C. K., Su, W., Long, S., …Li, H. N. (2023). Preventing thermal osteonecrosis through 3D printed ceramic grinding tool. Additive Manufacturing, 78, Article 103878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2023.103878

Conventional grinding tools in orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery are solid in structure, leading to a limited amount of coolant that can reach the bone surgery zone, and therefore causing localized high-temperature-induced issues (infection, necros... Read More about Preventing thermal osteonecrosis through 3D printed ceramic grinding tool.

Formulation of functional materials for inkjet printing: A pathway towards fully 3D printed electronics (2023)
Journal Article
Bastola, A., He, Y., Im, J., Rivers, G., Wang, F., Worsley, R., …Turyanska, L. (2023). Formulation of functional materials for inkjet printing: A pathway towards fully 3D printed electronics. Materials Today Electronics, 6, Article 100058. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtelec.2023.100058

Inkjet printing offers a facile route for manufacturing the next generation of electronic devices, by combining the design freedom of additive manufacturing technologies with tuneable properties of functional materials and opportunities for their int... Read More about Formulation of functional materials for inkjet printing: A pathway towards fully 3D printed electronics.

Inverse design and additive manufacturing of shape-morphing structures based on functionally graded composites (2023)
Journal Article
Kansara, H., Liu, M., He, Y., & Tan, W. (2023). Inverse design and additive manufacturing of shape-morphing structures based on functionally graded composites. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 180, Article 105382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105382

Shape-morphing structures possess the ability to change their shapes from one state to another, and therefore, offer great potential for a broad range of applications. A typical paradigm of morphing is transforming from an initial two-dimensional (2D... Read More about Inverse design and additive manufacturing of shape-morphing structures based on functionally graded composites.

Stable large area drop-on-demand deposition of a conductive polymer ink for 3D-printed electronics, enabled by bio-renewable co-solvents (2023)
Journal Article
Rivers, G., Austin, J. S., He, Y., Thompson, A., Gilani, N., Roberts, N., …Turyanska, L. (2023). Stable large area drop-on-demand deposition of a conductive polymer ink for 3D-printed electronics, enabled by bio-renewable co-solvents. Additive Manufacturing, 66, Article 103452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2023.103452

Development of conductive polymer ink formulations with reliable jetting stability and physical properties could offer sustainable routes for scaling-up the 3D-printing of electronics. We report a new poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulp... Read More about Stable large area drop-on-demand deposition of a conductive polymer ink for 3D-printed electronics, enabled by bio-renewable co-solvents.

Strategies for Integrating Metal Nanoparticles with Two-Photon Polymerization Process: Toward High Resolution Functional Additive Manufacturing (2023)
Journal Article
Im, J., Liu, Y., Hu, Q., Trindade, G. F., Parmenter, C., Fay, M., …Turyanska, L. (2023). Strategies for Integrating Metal Nanoparticles with Two-Photon Polymerization Process: Toward High Resolution Functional Additive Manufacturing. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(39), Article 2211920. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202211920

This study reports the successful fabrication of complex 3D metal nanoparticle–polymer nanocomposites using two-photon polymerization (2PP). Three complementary strategies are detailed: in situ formation of metal nanoparticles (MeNPs) through a singl... Read More about Strategies for Integrating Metal Nanoparticles with Two-Photon Polymerization Process: Toward High Resolution Functional Additive Manufacturing.

Personalized medicine: manufacturing oral solid dosage forms through additive manufacturing (2022)
Book Chapter
He, Y., Inês Evangelista Barreiros, M., & Cader, H. (2023). Personalized medicine: manufacturing oral solid dosage forms through additive manufacturing. In K. Zhou (Ed.), Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Functionalities and Applications (113-150). Cham: Springer

Medicine is moving towards personalized treatments, where the ultimate goal is that both drug delivery devices and loaded pharmaceutica tablets can be customized to meet the specific needs of individuals. The evolution of additive manufacturing (AM)... Read More about Personalized medicine: manufacturing oral solid dosage forms through additive manufacturing.

The impact of the risk of build failure on energy consumption in additive manufacturing (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Baumers, M., Basak, S., He, Y., & Ashcroft, I. (2022). The impact of the risk of build failure on energy consumption in additive manufacturing. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(5), 1771-1783. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13318

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is associated with significant promise in the manufacturing sector. However, it has been shown that the risk of build failure has a substantial impact on the costs of AM and that this results fr... Read More about The impact of the risk of build failure on energy consumption in additive manufacturing.

Exploiting Generative Design for Multi-Material Inkjet 3D Printed Cell Instructive, Bacterial Biofilm Resistant Composites (2022)
Working Paper
he, Y., Begines, B., Trindade, G., Abdi, M., dubern, J., Prina, E., …Wildman, R. Exploiting Generative Design for Multi-Material Inkjet 3D Printed Cell Instructive, Bacterial Biofilm Resistant Composites

As our understanding of disease grows, it is becoming established that treatment needs to be personalized and targeted to the needs of the individual. In this paper we show that multi-material inkjet-based 3D printing, when backed with generative des... Read More about Exploiting Generative Design for Multi-Material Inkjet 3D Printed Cell Instructive, Bacterial Biofilm Resistant Composites.

Correction to “Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers” (2022)
Journal Article
Ruiz-Cantu, L., Trindade, G. F., Taresco, V., Zhou, Z., He, Y., Burroughs, L., …Wildman, R. D. (2022). Correction to “Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers”. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14(6), 8654. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c00035

The chemical structure of the drug trandolapril has been corrected in Figure 4c. The conclusions of the work have not been affected by this correction. (Figure present).

Ink-jet 3D printing as a strategy for developing bespoke non-eluting biofilm resistant medical devices (2021)
Journal Article
He, Y., Luckett, J., Begines, B., Dubern, J. F., Hook, A. L., Prina, E., …Wildman, R. D. (2022). Ink-jet 3D printing as a strategy for developing bespoke non-eluting biofilm resistant medical devices. Biomaterials, 281, Article 121350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.121350

Chronic infection as a result of bacterial biofilm formation on implanted medical devices is a major global healthcare problem requiring new biocompatible, biofilm-resistant materials. Here we demonstrate how bespoke devices can be manufactured throu... Read More about Ink-jet 3D printing as a strategy for developing bespoke non-eluting biofilm resistant medical devices.

Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers (2021)
Journal Article
Ruiz-Cantu, L., Trindade, G. F., Taresco, V., Zhou, Z., He, Y., Burroughs, L., …Wildman, R. D. (2021). Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13(33), 38969-38978. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c07850

Controlling the microstructure of materials by means of phase separation is a versatile tool for optimizing material properties. Phase separation has been exploited to fabricate intricate microstructures in many fields including cell biology, tissue... Read More about Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers.

Modelling the influence of UV curing strategies for optimisation of inkjet based 3D printing (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, P., He, Y., Trindade, G. F., Baumers, M., Irvine, D., Hague, R., …Wildman Conceptualisation, R. (2021). Modelling the influence of UV curing strategies for optimisation of inkjet based 3D printing. Materials and Design, 208, Article 109889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109889

A predictive model is developed to assist in the design and manufacture of structures by inkjet based 3D printing (IJ3DP)/additive manufacturing. IJ3DP often exploits photopolymerisation to rapidly convert a photoreactive liquid ink into a solid prod... Read More about Modelling the influence of UV curing strategies for optimisation of inkjet based 3D printing.

Poly (glycerol adipate) (PGA) backbone modifications with a library of functional diols: Chemical and physical effects (2021)
Journal Article
Jacob, P. L., Ruiz Cantu, L. A., Pearce, A. K., He, Y., Lentz, J. C., Moore, J. C., …Taresco, V. (2021). Poly (glycerol adipate) (PGA) backbone modifications with a library of functional diols: Chemical and physical effects. Polymer, 228, Article 123912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2021.123912

Enzymatically synthesised poly(glycerol adipate) (PGA) has shown a palette of key desirable properties required for a biomaterial to be considered a ‘versatile polymeric tool’ in the field of drug delivery. PGA and its variations can self-assemble in... Read More about Poly (glycerol adipate) (PGA) backbone modifications with a library of functional diols: Chemical and physical effects.

Exploiting Generative Design for 3D Printing of Bacterial Biofilm Resistant Composite Devices (2021)
Journal Article
He, Y., Abdi, M., Trindade, G. F., Begines, B., Dubern, J. F., Prina, E., …Wildman, R. D. (2021). Exploiting Generative Design for 3D Printing of Bacterial Biofilm Resistant Composite Devices. Advanced Science, 8(15), Article 2100249. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202100249

As the understanding of disease grows, so does the opportunity for personalization of therapies targeted to the needs of the individual. To bring about a step change in the personalization of medical devices it is shown that multi-material inkjet-bas... Read More about Exploiting Generative Design for 3D Printing of Bacterial Biofilm Resistant Composite Devices.

Residual polymer stabiliser causes anisotropic electrical conductivity during inkjet printing of metal nanoparticles (2021)
Journal Article
Trindade, G. F., Wang, F., Im, J., He, Y., Balogh, A., Scurr, D., …Roberts, C. J. (2021). Residual polymer stabiliser causes anisotropic electrical conductivity during inkjet printing of metal nanoparticles. Communications Materials, 2(1), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00151-0

Inkjet printing of metal nanoparticles allows for design flexibility, rapid processing and enables the 3D printing of functional electronic devices through co-deposition of multiple materials. However, the performance of printed devices, especially t... Read More about Residual polymer stabiliser causes anisotropic electrical conductivity during inkjet printing of metal nanoparticles.