TECHNOLOGY LICENSING OPPORTUNITY: Engineered Porous Print Materials

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Engineered Porous Print Materials enables manufacturers to produce complex, high-surface-area structures with precisely engineered porosity at macro, micro and nano scales — all from a single printable composition and a standard stereolithography printer. By eliminating the need for secondary coatings, multi-step mold processes or specialized equipment, this technology developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory simplifies the production of advanced porous materials while opening design possibilities that conventional fabrication methods cannot achieve. Organizations seeking to improve the performance of catalytic reactors, filtration systems, thermal management devices, energy storage components or biomedical scaffolds, to name a few, can now access a versatile, low-cost platform that translates digital designs directly into functional, multi-material foam structures with tunable chemistry and architecture. How it Works The process begins with a specially formulated resin that contains three key ingredients mixed together: a polymer precursor that can be hardened by light, a porogenic solvent that induces phase separation during hardening, and a structural precursor (such as a metal salt or ceramic precursor) that will ultimately form the skeleton of the final part. When loaded into a commercial SLA 3D printer, the resin is cured layer by layer using light, producing a printed intermediate structure composed of a nanoporous polymer gel with the structural precursor distribut…

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