What is it about?
Currently, 3D printing has taken the world by storm, but not on a micro-level. Photosynthetic is developing game-changing improvements in microfabrication by creating a new and cost-effective method that has the potential to become the fastest and, at the same time, the most reliable 3D printing technology of the future.
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Why is it important?
On one hand, many new cutting-edge technologies depend on our ability to make structures smaller and smaller. On the other hand, making complex three-dimensional forms at the microscale is very difficult and expensive - the structures would be too small for the conventional 3D printer technology and too large (and expensive) for the nano-fabrication technology. Examples of the new micro-scale products are microfluidics used for point-of-care testing, drug testing, and drug delivery, micro-optics used in sensors and in data-transfer technology, and many others.
Perspectives
We would like to disrupt the microfabrication market by creating fast and cost-effective machines suitable for the serial production of microsystems. We are working on a platform technology that may be used in a wide variety of high-tech applications and our launching customers will use the technology for prototyping mostly. In the meantime, we want to focus on a narrow band of applications in the biomedical field, optimizing the printer for high-throughput serial production of drug-delivery systems.
Alexander Kostenko
Photosynthetic B.V.
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This page is a summary of: Rapid micro-prototyping by single-photon two-wavelength volumetric lithography, March 2023, SPIE,
DOI: 10.1117/12.2649341.
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