AcoustoFab: Contactless fabrication using acoustophoresis

AcoustoFab：使用声泳的非接触式制造

• 批准号: EP/Y027825/1
• 负责人: Sriram Subramanian
• 金额: $ 16.19万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY027825%2F1
• 关键词: AcoustoFab; Contactless; fabrication; using; acoustophoresis

Our team at UCL has developed a technology called acoustophoretic multimaterial contactless manufacturing (AMCM) to address several problems that plague many current fabrication technologies, such as contamination and unsafe handling of reagents, chemicals, biomaterials, food, and medicine. For example, industries and labs often face difficulties in handling small amounts of hazardous chemicals or in preventing contamination of food and medicine. AMCM allows for the contactless manipulation and fabrication of multiple objects (both solid and liquid) simultaneously in 3D space, using sound manipulating technologies such as transducer arrays and metamaterials. This technology has applications in contactless pick and place, cleaning, and 3D printing, and it enables the trapping of objects in 3D space, providing control over their mobility and speed. We envision that AMCM has the potential to be a world-leading technology in the field of contactless manipulation and fabrication, and we are proposing the use of AMCM in a system called AcoustoFab Systems, which could potentially become as ubiquitous as 3D printers.

我们在UCL的团队开发了一项称为声学多材料非接触式制造（AMCM）的技术，以解决困扰许多当前制造技术的几个问题，例如污染和不安全处理试剂，化学，生物材料，食品和药物的处理。例如，行业和实验室通常在处理少量危险化学物质或防止食物和医学污染方面遇到困难。 AMCM允许使用声音操纵技术（例如换能器阵列和超材料）在3D空间中同时在3D空间中同时进行多个物体（固体和液体）的非接触式操纵和制造。该技术在非接触式选择和地点，清洁和3D打印中具有应用程序，并且可以在3D空间中捕获对象，从而控制其移动性和速度。我们设想AMCM有可能成为非接触式操纵和制造领域的世界领先技术，并且我们提议在称为Acoustofab系统的系统中使用AMCM，该系统可能会像3D打印机一样无处不在。