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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

There have been multiple developments
in glass 3D printing methods since
MIT debuted its prototypes
from project G3DP in 2015. ACERS
Credit: Chikara Inamura, MIT News Office

3D-printed glass – Science and technology

where are we now?

After its last report on 3D glass-

printing technologies four
years ago, ACerS provides our

readers with an update on the

most recent new advances
Lisa McDonald
such as fully operational high- ACERS, THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY

resolution glass 3D printers,

stereolithography process to hough additive manufacturing (AM) is still
pitched as the up-and-coming technology in
create intricate glass objects, Tcontrast to traditional subtractive manufac-
turing techniques, certain forms of AM – particu-
and direct ink writing processes larly metal AM – are fast approaching mainstream.
Yet other forms of AM are far from reaching
to print 3D objects at room industrial capacity – especially glass AM.
Two common AM methods, fused filament fab-
temperature. rication and selective laser sintering, both rely on

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