Additive Manufacturing of Glass. From Science to Applications. Additive Manufacturing Materials and Technologies

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Selective laser melting and sintering and fused deposition modeling of glass
3. Sol-gel and colloidal processing
4. Deposition-based, indirect glass 3D printing
5. Photostructuring of silicate and chalcogenide glasses
6. Laser-based approaches for 3D structuring of glass
7. Status quo container glass forming
8. 3D printing of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics for bone tissue regeneration
9. Next generation microoptics
10. The role and impact of glass in chemistry, flow chemistry and microfluidic technologies

Authors

Bastian E. Rapp Head of Group, Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. Dr Bastian Rapp is currently employed as Head of Group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Microstructure Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany. His research interests are biomechanical engineering, microfluidics, biomaterials and microfabrication. Frederik Kotz-Helmer Laboratory of Process Technology, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Germany. Dr. Frederik Kotz-Helmer studied mechanical engineering at the Karslruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. During his phD thesis he developed novel strategies for the fabrication of transparent glasses. His work has been published in Journals like Nature, Science or Advanced Materials. He is Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO) of Glassomer, which commercialized glass 3D printing and injection molding. For his work he has been awarded among others the Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review Europe and the Deutsche Studienpreis.