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While 3D printing has opened an entirely new perspective on fabricating objects with tailored, complex architecture on demand, these are conventionally fabricated in a monolithic, single-material fashion and behave rather static. In addition, these materials often need to be post-functionalized. To retain the idea of 3D printing being a single-stage fabrication technique, multimaterial printing may avoid additional processing steps. As the printing of these materials mostly follows a liquid filament-to-solid voxel conversion, only limited local control can be exerted over physicochemical and mechanical properties and furthermore the achievable height is limited. This proposal aims at establishing a radically different approach for material design by 3D printing. The methodology relies on particulate formulations based on polymer microgels, where each microgel particle constitutes a single voxel, which is the smallest volume element in 3D printing.

• Dr. Carola Graf

  Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung
  Dresden e.V.
  Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Physik der
  Polymere
  Abt. Nanostrukturierte Materialien
  Leibniz Research Cluster (LRC)
  Dresden
  

• Dr. Julian Thiele

  Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung
  Dresden e.V.
  Institut für Physikalische Chemie
  und Physik der Polymere
  Dresden
  

• Additive soft matter design by UV-induced polymer hydrogel inter-crosslinking