{"id":209847,"date":"2025-03-27T02:23:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/light-based-polymerization-reaction-refines-3d-printing-achieving-sub-millimeter-resolution"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:23:38","slug":"light-based-polymerization-reaction-refines-3d-printing-achieving-sub-millimeter-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/light-based-polymerization-reaction-refines-3d-printing-achieving-sub-millimeter-resolution","title":{"rendered":"Light-based polymerization reaction refines 3D printing, achieving sub-millimeter resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-based-polymerization-reaction-refines-3d-printing-achieving-sub-millimeter-resolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the UAB have developed a new chemical reaction to form solid polymeric networks using light (photocuring) which will allow the preparation of solid materials with controlled shapes measuring under a thousandth of a millimeter. The research is key for the development of new, performance-enhanced lithographic and 3D printing techniques.<\/p>\n<p>At present, 3D printing is an increasingly widespread and accessible technology, typically involving the formation of solid polymeric materials in a specific region, either by extruding pre-formed polymers or by generating them in situ from their corresponding monomers, the molecules that make up polymers.<\/p>\n<p>However, these techniques often suffer from several drawbacks, such as long printing times or low resolution, preventing the production of printed materials with micrometric dimensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the UAB have developed a new chemical reaction to form solid polymeric networks using light (photocuring) which will allow the preparation of solid materials with controlled shapes measuring under a thousandth of a millimeter. The research is key for the development of new, performance-enhanced lithographic and 3D printing techniques. At present, 3D printing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}