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Multimaterial additive manufacturing manipulator for fabricating magnetoelectric pressure sensors

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The simultaneous placement of different types of materials including polymers, ceramics, and metals, in their desired positions could be adopted to manufacture end-use devices/apparatuses with diverse functionalities and significantly reduce the fabrication cost and time. However, existing additive manufacturing (AM) approaches can only treat one material species at a time due to their intrinsic working mechanisms. Here we develop an AM manipulator for manufacturing a wide variety of material species, including polymers, ceramics, and metals, through a multifilament transport strategy assisted by laser power. The six-jaw manipulator contains three pairs of filament delivering/cutting systems for transporting diverse materials and a beam of tunable laser as the thermal source. The whole apparatus is integrated into a robotic manipulator to create a multifreedom manufacturing platform. With this innovation, products with multiple material species and desired complex geometries can be fabricated on demand. Furthermore, we synthesize a multimaterial (polymer/ceramic/metal) printed magnetoelectric pressure sensor that can convert applied mechanical forces to electricity and maintain efficiency even after undergoing 10000 cycles of pressure/recovery. With this multimaterial filament transport and laser manufacturing strategy, our AM manipulator exhibits promising application in the advanced manufacturing of embedded electronics, sensors, soft robotics, and customizable medical devices.

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

    ZhuFeng Liu, ZhaoQing Li, Lei Yang, Xiang Nie, Peng Geng, ZhenHua Wu, SiHan Tang, Lei Yang, HongZhi Wu, Peng Chen, Bin Su, LiChao Zhang, ChunZe Yan & YuSheng Shi

  2. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Qi Wang

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430205, China

    Yan Wang

  4. School of Transportation and Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430063, China

    Lei Yang

  5. Department of Orthopaedics, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China

    YunSong Shi

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Aerospace Advanced Manufacturing Technology Research Joint Fund (Grant No. U2037203, 2020) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. YCJJ202202010). This project was supported by the State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology and Analysis and Testing Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

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Liu, Z., Li, Z., Wang, Q. et al. Multimaterial additive manufacturing manipulator for fabricating magnetoelectric pressure sensors. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 65, 2542–2550 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-022-2154-9

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