Abstract:
Invented during the eighties, additive manufacturing technologies, also known as 3D printing, have received recently unprecedented levels of attention and interest from industry and research laboratories. 3D printing enables almost infinite possibilities for rapid prototyping thank to the large selection of printing materials and more economical processes compared to conventional fabrication methods. Therefore, it has been considered for applications in numerous research fields, ranging from mechanical engineering, medicine, materials science to chemistry. Electrochemistry is another branch of science that can certainly benefit from 3D printing technologies, paving the way for the design and fabrication of cheaper, higher performing, and ubiquitously available electrochemical devices. It is also true the inverse: 3D printing of innovative engineered materials can be enabled by electrochemical driving forces.
In this talk after a short introduction to the basic principles of 3D printing and the most common printing technologies, I will illustrate recent works we have carried out on their use for the fabrication of different electrochemical devices and components for sensing, biosensing, water splitting and other energy related applications. A preliminary study on the use of electrochemistry for multi material printing will be lastly presented.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Adriano Ambrosi received his Ph.D. degree from Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland) in 2007. As a postdoctoral researcher, he firstly worked for two years at Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2, Barcelona, Spain) and then, in 2009, at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan). From 2010 he works as Senior Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University-Singapore. His research interests include the application of nanomaterials to electrochemical biosensors; synthesis and fundamental electrochemical studies of graphene and other 2D materials for sensing and energy related applications; fabrication of electrochemical devices by 3D printing; and more recently on innovative 3D printing mechanisms based on electrochemical curing for bioadhesives and epoxy resins materials. He published over 120 peer-reviewed articles, receiving more than 9500 citations for a citation h-index of 49. He has been recognized as Highly Cited Researcher in 2018 by Clarivate Analytics in the Cross-field category.