TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: True Silicone DLP Printing Platform
ENERGY, DEPARTMENT OF
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About this opportunity
The True Silicone DLP Printing Platform from Los Alamos National Laboratory allows for more geometries in producing genuine silicone parts, gaskets, lattices, prosthetic components or microfluidic devices on an off-the-shelf desktop printer typically required by specialty extrusion equipment. The result is a material whose polymer backbone is built entirely of silicon-oxygen bonds rather than the carbon-based linkages that quietly compromise so-called silicones on the market today. The True Silicone DLP Printing Platform unlocks that capability through a precursor resin and a paired printing workflow that together deliver real silicone parts free of metal catalyst residues, with tunable porosity, geometric complexity and the aging stability that demanding applications require. How it Works...