Fig. 1: Using light to control mechanical properties in g-DLP printing. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: Using light to control mechanical properties in g-DLP printing.

From: Single-vat single-cure grayscale digital light processing 3D printing of materials with large property difference and high stretchability

Fig. 1

a Schematic illustration of the crosslink density and properties with different conversions. b, c Schematic illustrations of the hydrogen bonding and crosslinking of the polymer network. d Chemical structure of the monomers; e Schematic of bottom-up g-DLP 3D printing; f A g-DLP printed snail with a hard shell that can support 1 kg weight and soft neck that can be stretched by 400%. The scale bar is 1 cm.

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