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Microsterolithography

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Stereolithography

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Stereolithography (SL) is a special type of additive fabrication process, in the general class of techniques known as solid freeform fabrication (SFF) that is used to produce solid objects directly from computer design data. Solid freeform fabrication refers to techniques in which a solid object is manufactured by the sequential delivery of energy and/or material to specific points in space to produce that solid part. SFF is also sometimes referred to as solid freeform manufacturing (SFM), rapid prototyping (RP), rapid manufacturing (RM), additive fabrication (AF), or layered manufacturing (LM). In stereolithography, manufacturing of the desired part is accomplished by using a vat of liquid photocurable resin and a light source that can produce pattern-wise exposure in the vat to build up the solid polymer object via localized polymerization of the photocurable resin. Microsterolithography (MSL) simply refers to SL processes which possess feature...

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  1. School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Clifford L. Henderson

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  1. VU Station B 351592, Vanderbilt University Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Dongqing Li

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Henderson, C.L. (2014). Microsterolithography. In: Li, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27758-0_1016-2

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