Chapter 2

Additive Manufacturing of Functional Ceramics

José Fernando Valera-Jiménez

José Fernando Valera-Jiménez

3D-ENERMAT, Materials for Energy & 3D Printing Lab, Renewable Energy Research Institute, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

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Juan Ramón Marín-Rueda

Juan Ramón Marín-Rueda

3D-ENERMAT, Materials for Energy & 3D Printing Lab, Renewable Energy Research Institute, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

Print3D Solutions, Albacete, Spain

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Juan Carlos Pérez-Flores

Juan Carlos Pérez-Flores

3D-ENERMAT, Materials for Energy & 3D Printing Lab, Renewable Energy Research Institute, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

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Miguel Castro-García

Miguel Castro-García

3D-ENERMAT, Materials for Energy & 3D Printing Lab, Renewable Energy Research Institute, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

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Jesús Canales-Vázquez

Jesús Canales-Vázquez

3D-ENERMAT, Materials for Energy & 3D Printing Lab, Renewable Energy Research Institute, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

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First published: 08 February 2021

Summary

From a mere economic point of view, analysing the market forecasts for both technical ceramics and additive manufacturing points to an emerging field that can be considered as a business opportunity for investors. This chapter analyses five 3Dprinting technologies that can be used for the production of technical ceramics: extrusion-based, photopolimerization, laser-based, jetting, and lamination object modelling (LOM). LOM was originally used in the production of metal and ceramic parts. Extrusion is one of the most used technologies for ceramics shaping. Photopolymerization involves several technologies which consist of a resin via UV light, originally from a laser SLA. Laser-based technologies can be classified according to the physical process used to consolidate the initial ceramic powder. Jetting technologies are usually referred as inkjet. As for ceramics, printheads may jet directly inks containing ceramics or, alternatively, they may jet a binder-based ink onto a powder bed.

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