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Printing glass in the nano

Nature Materials volume 20, pages 1454–1456 (2021)Cite this article

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A transparent suspension containing colloidal silica is used to additively manufacture three-dimensional structures and photonic devices of silica glass at the nanoscale.

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Fig. 1: Techniques for additive manufacturing of glass at different length scales, from centimetric to nanometric features, with examples of glass components fabricated with each technique.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

    Paolo Colombo & Giorgia Franchin

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

    Paolo Colombo

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Colombo, P., Franchin, G. Printing glass in the nano. Nat. Mater. 20, 1454–1456 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01137-6

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