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Fabrication and mechanical properties of triply period minimal surface porous alumina ceramics based on Digital Light Processing 3D printing technology

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Digital Light Processing (DLP) was used to prepare porous alumina ceramics. By comparing rheological and curing properties of slurries with different solid content, alumina slurries with high solid content were proposed. The green bodies were sintered in an air atmosphere after a nitrogen-air double-step debinding, and the relative density of alumina ceramics prepared by a slurry of 72.5 wt.% solid content reached 96%. In addition, three kinds (Gyroid, Diamond, and F-RD) of triply period minimal surface (TPMS) structural models with different volume fractions were established through implicit functions and simulated in Comsol. The simulation results showed that the Gyroid structure has a higher compression property than the other two structures under the same ceramic volume fraction. The TPMS structural alumina green bodies were sintered after DLP printing. The maximum compressive strength of the Gyroid structure with 60% ceramic volume fraction reached 27.42 MPa.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Advanced Ceramics Institute of Zibo, the National Key Research and Development Plan.

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan (2021YFB3703100), the Hubei High Value Patent Cultivation Project (2021pm0012), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1806221, 51672198), the Innovation and Development Project of Zibo City (2017CX01A022), the Instruction & Development Project for National Funding Innovation Demonstration Zone of Shandong Province (2017-41-1, 2017-41-3, 2018ZCQZB01, 2019ZCQZB03), the Central Guiding Local Science and Technology Development Special Funds (2060503), and the Key Research & Design Program of Shandong Province (2019GGX102011).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China

    Kai Liu & Huajun Sun

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China

    Kai Liu, Zhenji Zhang, Huajun Sun, Ce Sun, Lei Qiu & Shangyu Huang

  3. Advanced Ceramics Institute of Zibo New & High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, Zibo, 255000, Shandong, China

    Huajun Sun

  4. School of Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, Hubei, China

    Yusheng Shi

  5. State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China

    Song Zhang & Rong Tu

  6. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Yanying Du

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Z. Zhang conducted experiments with the guidance of K. Liu; The manuscript was written by Z. Zhang, K. Liu, and Y. Du. All authors evaluated the conclusions of the manuscript and approved it.

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Liu, K., Zhang, Z., Sun, H. et al. Fabrication and mechanical properties of triply period minimal surface porous alumina ceramics based on Digital Light Processing 3D printing technology. Int J Adv Manuf Technol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-023-11164-z

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