School of Physical Sciences - Chemistry, ‡ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, and §Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS), University of Tasmania , Dobson Road, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7005, Australia.
Anal Chem. 2017 Apr 18;89(8):4405-4408. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b00443. Epub 2017 Mar 30.
3D printed micrometer-scale polymer mounts for single crystal analysis have been prepared by photopolymerization using digital light projection stereolithography (DLP-SLA), with a commercially available digital light projection stereolithography printer (US$4000) and 3DM-ABS resin (US$150 per liter). The polymer mounts were prepared in batches of 49 in 1 h 15 min, which allowed for rapid prototyping and testing of new crystal mounting designs, with a resin cost of 0.2¢ US per mount. The suitability of the 3D printed mounts for single crystal crystallography has been demonstrated through their use in Cu Kα X-ray diffraction experiments of Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate), the protein lysozyme, and has been employed for routine crystallographic analysis of organic and inorganic materials.
3D 打印微尺度聚合物支架用于单晶分析，通过数字光投影立体光刻（DLP-SLA）进行光聚合，使用市售的数字光投影立体光刻打印机（4000 美元）和 3DM-ABS 树脂（每升 150 美元）。聚合物支架以 49 个为一批在 1 小时 15 分钟内制备完成，这允许快速原型制作和测试新的晶体安装设计，每个支架的树脂成本为 0.2 美分。通过使用 Rochelle 盐（酒石酸钾钠）、蛋白质溶菌酶的 Cu Kα X 射线衍射实验，证明了 3D 打印支架用于单晶晶体学的适用性，并已用于有机和无机材料的常规晶体学分析。
