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Summary Sentence: Join Materials Science and Engineering as they present Dr. Adam Jakus from Dimension Inx LLC for their Faculty Candidate Seminar.
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Adam Jakus3D-Painting: A Highly Versatile, Materials-Centric Approach to the Design and Development of Functional Materials for Advanced Manufacturing ("From Ovaries to the Moon and Beyond")
Adam Jakus, PhD, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Dimension Inx LLC
Abstract:
Although a variety of additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D-printing (3DP) technologies have been around for ~30 years, it has only been within the last 3-5 years that an explosion in consumer, commercial, academic, medical, industrial, and governmental interest in the topic has emerged. It is easy to understand why these technologies capture so much of our imaginations; they have the capacity to transform an intangible file into a tangible object. But from what material(s) is that object made and does that material have any function? This is the next big hurdle in AM, 3DP, and additional forms of advanced manufacturing - expanding not only the types and varieties of materials that are compatible with existing advanced manufacturing processes, but designing new material systems that permit a single machine to utilize dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of distinct materials. In this talk, I will give an overview of a new, materials-centric advanced manufacturing approach, 3D-Painting, that I have developed over the past several years. The 3D-Painting process utilizes liquid-based, particle laden 3D-paints to rapidly 3D-print, via direct syringe extrusion (no support materials, no powder beds, no solvent baths) at room-temperature, solid, functional materials and objects defined by single to hundreds or even thousands of layers with no drying time required. These 3D-paints also have value beyond 3D-printing, and can be implemented in numerous additional 1-dimensional (fiberstextiles) and 2-dimensional ways (coatings, casting, spraying), which will be briefly discussed. Thus far, more than 250 3D-Paints have been created and demonstrated. All 3D-Paints or Co-3D-printing compatible with each other, and may even be mixed prior to use (as one would mix paint to obtain different colors), resulting in a near infinite array of possible 3D-paints. I will highlight several new material systems produced through this near-universal 3D-Painting process, including the new, highly bioactive, scalable, surgically friendly, and clinically relevant biomaterials: Hyperelastic "Bone", 3D-Graphene/Graphite, tissue and organ-specific "Tissue Papers", and several others. I will also illustrate how this process has been and is continuing to be utilized used to 3D-print an extensive variety of metals, alloys, ceramics, and even extraterrestrial soil simulants.
Biography:
Adam Jakus, PhD is co-founder and current Chief Technology of Dimension Inx LLC, a start-up developing transformative advanced manufacturing materials and processes for medical and non-medical spaces. Prior to his current position, Adam was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University (NU) in Materials Science & Engineering and a founding member of Prof. Ramille Shah’s Tissue Engineering and Additive Manufacturing (TEAM) Laboratory. He received his BS and MS degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the Georgia Institute Technology and completed his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering at NU in the Shah TEAM Laboratory in 2014, culminating in a dissertation entitled “Development and Implementation of Functional 3D-Printed Material Systems for Tissue Engineering, Energy, and Structural Applications”, spanning materials as diverse as ovarian tissues, Hyperelastic Bone, 3D-Graphene, ceramics, alloys, and extraterrestrial regoliths. He is the author of numerous granted and pending patents, high impact medical and non-medical publications, and editorials related to advanced manufacturing and 3D-printing of biomaterials and non-materials.
