Additive Manufacturing of Functional Microarchitected Reactors for Energy, Environmental, and Biological Applications

The use of microreactors in the continuous fluidic system has been rapidly expanded over the past three decades. Developments in materials science and engineering have accelerated the advancement of the microreactor technology, enabling it to play a critical role in chemical, biological, and energy...

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Main Authors: Kim, Seok, Kim, Do Hyeog, Kim, Wonpyo, Cho, Young Tae, Fang, Nicholas Xuanlai
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129371
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Kim, Do Hyeog
Kim, Wonpyo
Cho, Young Tae
Fang, Nicholas Xuanlai
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Kim, Wonpyo
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description The use of microreactors in the continuous fluidic system has been rapidly expanded over the past three decades. Developments in materials science and engineering have accelerated the advancement of the microreactor technology, enabling it to play a critical role in chemical, biological, and energy applications. The emerging paradigm of digital additive manufacturing broadens the range of the material flexibility, innovative structural design, and new functionality of the conventional microreactor system. The control of spatial arrangements with functional printable materials determines the mass transport and energy transfer within architected microreactors, which are significant for many emerging applications, including use in catalytic, biological, battery, or photochemical reactors. However, challenges such as lack of design based on multiphysics modeling and material validation are currently preventing the broader applications and impacts of functional microreactors conjugated with digital manufacturing beyond the laboratory scale. This review covers a state-of-the-art of research in the development of some of the most advanced digital manufactured functional microreactors. We then the outline major challenges in the field and provide our perspectives on future research and development directions.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1293712022-09-28T00:42:35Z Additive Manufacturing of Functional Microarchitected Reactors for Energy, Environmental, and Biological Applications Kim, Seok Kim, Do Hyeog Kim, Wonpyo Cho, Young Tae Fang, Nicholas Xuanlai Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering The use of microreactors in the continuous fluidic system has been rapidly expanded over the past three decades. Developments in materials science and engineering have accelerated the advancement of the microreactor technology, enabling it to play a critical role in chemical, biological, and energy applications. The emerging paradigm of digital additive manufacturing broadens the range of the material flexibility, innovative structural design, and new functionality of the conventional microreactor system. The control of spatial arrangements with functional printable materials determines the mass transport and energy transfer within architected microreactors, which are significant for many emerging applications, including use in catalytic, biological, battery, or photochemical reactors. However, challenges such as lack of design based on multiphysics modeling and material validation are currently preventing the broader applications and impacts of functional microreactors conjugated with digital manufacturing beyond the laboratory scale. This review covers a state-of-the-art of research in the development of some of the most advanced digital manufactured functional microreactors. We then the outline major challenges in the field and provide our perspectives on future research and development directions. U.S. Army Research Office (Contract W911NF-09-0001) 2021-01-11T18:53:46Z 2021-01-11T18:53:46Z 2020-10 2020-07 2021-01-02T04:11:17Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2288-6206 2198-0810 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129371 Kim, Seok et al. "Additive Manufacturing of Functional Microarchitected Reactors for Energy, Environmental, and Biological Applications." International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology 8, 1 (October 2020): 303–326 © 2020 Korean Society for Precision Engineering en http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40684-020-00277-5 International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing-Green Technology Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Korean Society for Precision Engineering application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer
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