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Additive nanomanufacturing: a review

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posted on 2016-08-01, 13:15 authored by Daniel EngstromDaniel Engstrom, B. Porter, M. Pacios, H. Bhaskaran
Additive manufacturing has provided a pathway for inexpensive and flexible manufacturing of specialized components and one-off parts. At the nanoscale, such techniques are less ubiquitous. Manufacturing at the nanoscale is dominated by lithography tools that are too expensive for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to invest in. Additive nanomanufacturing (ANM) empowers smaller facilities to design, create, and manufacture on their own while providing a wider material selection and flexible design. This is especially important as nanomanufacturing thus far is largely constrained to 2-dimensional patterning techniques and being able to manufacture in 3-dimensions could open up new concepts. In this review, we outline the state-of-the-art within ANM technologies such as electrohydrodynamic jet printing, dip-pen lithography, direct laser writing, and several single particle placement methods such as optical tweezers and electrokinetic nanomanipulation. The ANM technologies are compared in terms of deposition speed, resolution, and material selection and finally the future prospects of ANM are discussed. This review is up-to-date until April 2014.

Funding

This review was made possible by an EPSRC Manufacturing Fellowship “Additive nanomanufacturing via probe-based pick-and-place nanoparticle assembly,” Grant EP/J018694/1.

History

School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Journal of Materials Research

Volume

29

Issue

17

Pages

1792 - 1816

Citation

ENGSTROM, D.S. ... et al, 2014. Additive nanomanufacturing - A review. Journal of Materials Research, 29 (17), pp. 1792-1816

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (© 2014 Materials Research Society)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

ISSN

0884-2914

eISSN

2044-5326

Language

  • en