The BioPACIFIC MIP's Additive Manufacturing Facility includes resources for rapid prototyping, advanced manufacturing, soft lithography, and 3D printing. The facility focuses on designing, building, and maintaining custom 3D printing platforms tailored to specific user-defined applications. Featuring state-of-the-art 3D printing processes, the facility routinely fabricates complex structures from novel bio-derived monomers, exhibiting a diverse range of mechanical, transport, optical, and chemical properties.
The NSF BioPACIFIC MIP operates a one of a kind user facility dedicated to creating a nexus for synthetic biology and materials to revolutionize high-performance polymers. Users are uniquely able to elucidate biomaterial structure and function to achieve materials-by-design, construct new bio-derived functional monomers from living organisms, access novel sequence-specific materials (e.g. peptoids), synthesize stimuli-responsive “smart” biomaterials, scale-up biomaterial production, and
incorporate state-of-the-art theoretic simulation and machine learning algorithms.
The facility is equipped with a Carbon M2 printer and a Mono 3Z2 digital light processing (DLP) printer. The facility also houses a dedicated system for the Solution Mask Liquid Lithography (SMaLL) process, capable of 3D printing unique multi-material objects with spatially-resolved mechanical and chemical properties; a Cellink BioX bioprinter for printing biological components, aqueous gels, and thermosets; and a Cellink LumenX DLP bioprinter.
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