3D Printing Materials Market: An Exclusive Study on Upcoming Trends and Growth Opportunities
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19 May 2021, 05:09 GMT+10
Opportunities in the 3D printing materials market have evolved through a number of stages. Lucintel has found the future of this market to be promising; the 3D printing materials market is expected to reach $4 billion by 2025 with a CAGR of 17%. In this market, medical is expected to remain the largest end use industry, and photopolymers segment is expected to remain the largest by material type. Players can benefit from the available opportunities like rapid acceptance of 3D printing technology from prototyping to final product manufacturing and reduction in manufacturing cost.
Adobe Stock A new class of metals is compatible with 3D printing processes for use in high-performance applications for space, energy, and nuclear industries.
Researchers have discovered a new class of super-alloys that solves a common problem with metal 3D-printed parts for high-performance applications the tendency to crack and have deformations that render them unusable.
Tresa Pollock, a professor of materials and associate dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara, led a team that discovered a new class of nickel-based 3D printable super-alloys that are high-strength, defect-resistant, and can maintain their material integrity at temperatures up to 90 percent of their melting point. The last characteristic is in contrast to most alloys, which fall apart at 50 percent of their melting temperatures, researchers said.
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Now, in an article in the journal Nature Communications, Pollock, in collaboration with Carpenter Technologies, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UCSB staff scientists Chris Torbet and Gareth Seward, and UCSB Ph.D. students Sean Murray, Kira Pusch, and Andrew Polonsky, describes a new class of superalloys that overcome this cracking problem and, therefore, hold tremendous promise for advancing the use of AM to produce complex one-off components for use in high-stress, high-performance environments.
The research was supported by a $3 million Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) that Pollock was awarded from the U.S. Department of Defense in 2017. The VBFF is the Department of Defense’s most prestigious single-investigator award, supporting basic research that could have a transformative impact.