Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore, 117576, Singapore.
Adv Mater. 2018 Nov;30(47):e1802404. doi: 10.1002/adma.201802404. Epub 2018 Oct 10.
Additive manufacturing (AM) of ceramic materials has attracted tremendous attention in recent years, due to its potential to fabricate suitable advanced ceramic structures for various engineering applications. Robocasting, a subset of ceramic AM, is an ideal technique for constructing fine and dense ceramic structures with geometrically complex morphology. With the freedom and convenience to deposit various materials within any 3D spatial position, ceramic robocasting opens up unlimited opportunities, which are otherwise hardly attainable from other AM techniques. Here, a summary of the recent progress on the fabrication of single and multi-ceramic structures by robocasting is provided, as well as the prospects of achieving shapeable ceramic structures. The current challenges in ceramic robocasting and an outlook on its development, especially toward the fabrication of self-shaping ceramic structures, are also discussed.
近年来，由于能够制造适用于各种工程应用的先进陶瓷结构，陶瓷材料的增材制造（AM）引起了极大的关注。机器人制造是陶瓷 AM 的一个子集，是构建具有复杂几何形状的精细和致密陶瓷结构的理想技术。通过在任何 3D 空间位置自由方便地沉积各种材料，陶瓷机器人制造开辟了无限的机会，而这些机会是其他增材制造技术难以实现的。本文总结了机器人制造在制造单陶瓷和多陶瓷结构方面的最新进展，并展望了实现可塑陶瓷结构的前景。还讨论了陶瓷机器人制造目前面临的挑战以及对其发展的展望，特别是在制造自成形陶瓷结构方面。
