3D Printing for Energy Applications

Contributor xiv
 
Introduction to 3D Printing Technologies xviii
 
Part I 3D printing of functional materials 1
 
1 Additive Manufacturing of Functional Metals 3
Venkata Karthik Nadimpalli and David Bue Pedersen
 
1.1 Introduction 3
 
1.1.1 Industrial Application of Metal AM in the Energy Sector 5
 
1.1.2 Geometrical Gradients in AM 6
 
1.1.3 Material Gradients in AM 6
 
1.2 Powder Bed Fusion AM 7
 
1.2.1 Geometric Gradients in PBF 8
 
1.2.2 Material Gradients in PBF 9
 
1.3 Direct Material Deposition 12
 
1.3.1 Powder and Wire Feedstock for Near-Net-Shape AM 12
 
1.3.2 Functional Material Gradients in DED 13
 
1.4 Solid-State Additive Manufacturing 16
 
1.5 Hybrid AM Through Green Body Sintering 19
 
1.5.1 Common AM Technologies for Green Body Manufacturing 19
 
1.5.2 CAD Design and Shrinkage Compensation 20
 
1.5.3 Additive Manufacture 20
 
1.5.4 Debinding and Sintering 21
 
1.5.5 Functionally Graded Components in Sintered Components 22
 
1.6 Conclusions 22
 
Acknowledgment 24
 
References 24
 
2 Additive Manufacturing of Functional Ceramics 33
José Fernando Valera-Jiménez, Juan Ramón Marín-Rueda, Juan Carlos Pérez-Flores, Miguel Castro-García, and Jesús Canales-Vázquez
 
2.1 Introduction 33
 
2.1.1 Why 3D Printing of Technical Ceramics? 35
 
2.1.2 Materials and Applications 35
 
2.2 Ceramics 3D Printing Technologies 36
 
2.2.1 Lamination Object Modeling (LOM) 37
 
2.2.2 Ceramics Extrusion 38
 
2.2.2.1 Robocasting/Direct Ink Writing 39
 
2.2.2.2 Fused Deposition of Ceramics 42
 
2.2.3 Photopolymerization 44
 
2.2.4 Laser-Based Technologies 47
 
2.2.5 Jetting 49
 
References 52
 
3 3D Printing of Functional Composites with Strain Sensing and Self-Heating Capabilities 69
Xin Wang and Jihua Gou
 
3.1

Albert Tarancón is ICREA Research Professor and Head of the Nanoionics and Fuel Cells Group at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles, 5 book chapters, and given over 200 oral presentations. He is Editor of the Journal of Physics Energy and the Journal of the European Ceramic Society.
 
Vincenzo Esposito is Professor and Technology Coordinator in Ceramic Science and Engineering at the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark. His research focus is at the intersection of nanoionics, solid state chemistry and advanced materials processing.