First printings with Selective Laser Sintering of fully composite biobased powders from vegetal waxes and lignocellulosic powders ! A challenging work that was made possible thanks to a collaboration with the University of Auckland’s Creative Design and Additive Manufacturing Lab.
Michael French and Elliot Soffe students at the university of Auckland have demonstrated during their Part 4 project that fully biobased composite powder developped in the framework of the SmartPop Project can be printed in tradtional Selective Laser Sintering machine.
Theirs work highlights the parameters that most strongly influence the printing process of such biomaterials and paves the way to cross-optimisation between the 3D printing processes and the properties of the biobased powders.
Thkans to Pr Olaf Diegel and Juan Schutte for the supervision !
