As one of the three solid materials, ceramic materials have excellent characteristics such as high strength, high hardness, high temperature resistance, low density, good chemical stability, and corrosion resistance. They have a long history of development and are widely used in aerospace, automotive, biomedical, Industry, construction and other industries. However, its hard and brittle characteristics make it particularly difficult to process and shape ceramic materials. The traditional ceramic preparation process intelligently manufactures simple three-dimensional products with high cost and long cycle time.
Ceramic 3D printing technology combines ceramic materials and additive manufacturing technology to directly print ceramic parts with complex structures. It is a supplement to the traditional ceramic manufacturing industry. At the same time, it can replace the traditional manufacturing process to a certain extent and accelerate the new Product innovative design feedback and improved resource utilization can also make it possible to apply new ceramic products with better performance and lower cost.
Advanced ceramic laser 3D printers are mainly used for rapid prototyping and manufacturing of advanced ceramic materials, helping the ceramic industry to transform to digital and flexible manufacturing. The equipment integrates a number of comprehensive interdisciplinary technologies such as laser technology, three-dimensional design, automatic control, and material research and development. Since foreign research on ceramic 3D printing and molding technology started early, and high-end equipment has been monopolized by well-known foreign companies. In recent years, Intellite Laser has gradually achieved advanced ceramic 3D printers through continuous technological research and breakthroughs and the use of different molding tools. Localization.
In the field of domestic advanced ceramic laser 3D printing, the CeraBuilder series of ceramic 3D printers developed by Intellite Laser are unique and have achieved industrial sales, and have developed a variety of printing materials, including oxide ceramics, nitride ceramics, and bioceramics. And many other types, involving more than a dozen kinds of materials.
With the development of parts in the aerospace field toward high performance, light weight, and complex structure, the use of ceramic 3D technology to produce high-performance ceramic parts with complex structures, ceramic core widescreen radomes, planetary bellows, etc., has irreplaceable advantages. The new application environment has increasingly demanding requirements for parts, and at the same time, lightweight and high-performance parts represented by ceramic parts provide a stable market demand.
In the field of biomedicine, advanced ceramic laser 3D printers are used in artificial bones, bone fixation, joints and other aspects of bioceramic materials. There is a huge demand for bioceramic materials. my country is a large country with a large population. At the same time, the population of our country is entering an aging trend, and the exhausted and diseased tissues and organs of the elderly also need to be repaired and treated. Intellite laser printing equipment for human hard tissues has been successfully developed, which can quickly manufacture teeth, nails, and According to the size and shape of the bone defect in clinical patients, "tailor-made" biodegradable 3D printed bone can effectively improve the bone conduction effect and bring good news to patients with large-scale bone defects, nonunion, and osteoporosis.
Through the development of advanced ceramic laser 3D printing materials, printing process and equipment technology research, breakthrough the technical bottleneck of advanced ceramic 3D printing product development, so that product technical indicators reach the international advanced level. At the same time, a self-developed technology with core competitiveness is formed, and a variety of ceramic materials and equipment are developed for different application markets, so as to realize the complete replacement of ceramic 3D printing materials and equipment. Breaking foreign monopolies will greatly promote the social and technological level.
At present, compared with metal and polymer materials, the application of ceramic materials in 3D printing is slightly immature. The particle size, pH value, particle distribution, viscosity and additives of ceramic slurry directly affect the printing effect, increasing The difficulty of ceramic slurry preparation, the development of ceramic 3D printing technology is closely related to the development of material preparation technology. However, because ceramic 3D printing technology can directly print ceramic parts with complex structures, ceramic 3D printing technology still has irreplaceable advantages and application value.