Recently, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a new piece of equipment was installed, which brings the newest technology in additive manufacturing to campus.
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Synchronized manufacturing of a bioinspired structure with a hierarchical vascular network.
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Mayank Garg, Nancy Sottos, Jeff Moore, and Phillipe Guebelle
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Developing self-healing materials is nothing new for Nancy Sottos, lead of the Autonomous Materials Systems Group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
You re so vein: Scientists discover faster way to manufacture vascular materials
Urbana, IL | Posted on May 14th, 2021
Drawing inspiration from biological circulatory systems such as blood vessels or the leaves on a tree University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have worked on developing vascularized structural composites for more than a decade, creating materials that are lightweight and able to self-heal and self-cool.
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Drawing inspiration from biological circulatory systems such as blood vessels or the leaves on a tree University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have worked on developing vascularized structural composites for more than a decade, creating materials that are lightweight and able to self-heal and self-cool.
But now, a team of Beckman researchers led by Sottos and Mayank Garg, postdoctoral research associate and lead author of the newly published Nature Communications paper, “Rapid Synchronized Fabrication of Vascularized Thermosets and Composites,” have shortened a two-day manufacturing process to approximately two minutes by harnessing frontal polymerization of readily available resins.