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Research Article | Open Access | Just Accepted

Warpage-free Si3N4 slurry strategy for vat photopolymerization

Chi HuangLiya Zheng( )Zhilin TianLei ShiBin Li( )

School of Materials, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.

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Si3N4 ceramics are promising wave-transparent materials with excellent mechanical and dielectric properties. Vat photopolymerization (VPP) 3D printing provides a strategy for preparing ceramics with controllable complex structures. However, the difficulty in solidifying the slurry due to partial ultraviolet (UV) light absorption and high refractive index by the Si3N4 particles during the VPP process severely hampers the molding of Si3N4 ceramics. Higher laser power has to be used to increase the curing depth, which generates large internal stresses and leads to the warping of the samples. This paper presents a method to solve the warpage problem during VPP-3D printing using tributyl citrate as a plasticizer. The plasticizer can weaken the force between polymer molecular chains and reduce the internal stress of the green body. The warpage decreases gradually with the increase of tributyl citrate content, and the warpage decreases to 0 when the plasticizer content reaches 30 wt.% at high laser powers from 600 mW to 750 mW. Samples with different layer thicknesses were printed and the optimum thickness of 40 μm was obtained, at which the sintered Si3N4 samples possess a unique combination of mechanical properties, including a bending strength of 338.29±12.08 MPa, a fracture toughness of 6.94±0.11 MPa·m1/2 for the loading direction perpendicular and 5.37±0.99 MPa·m1/2 for the loading direction parallel to the build surface, respectively. The dielectric constant of all the samples is maintained in the range of 5.462 to 6.414. This work is expected to guide vat photopolymerization and the preparation of complex Si3N4 ceramic components.

Journal of Advanced Ceramics
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Huang C, Zheng L, Tian Z, et al. Warpage-free Si3N4 slurry strategy for vat photopolymerization. Journal of Advanced Ceramics, 2024, https://doi.org/10.26599/JAC.2024.9221016

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Received: 22 July 2024
Revised: 03 December 2024
Accepted: 05 December 2024
Available online: 06 December 2024

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