Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

The Dow Chemical Company

Nutrition & Biosciences USA 4, Inc.

Newman, Robert Alan

Pyzik, Aleksander Jozef

Shinkel, Nicholas Myron

Aleksander Jozef Pyzik

Sharon Allen

Chan Han

Nicholas M Shinkel

Arthur Richard Prunier, Jr

Uday V Deshmukh

Robert Alan Newman

Donald R Beaman

Kwanho Yang

Jack J Ott

Ted A Morgan

Harold E Rossow

Robert Thomas Nilsson

Robin Paul Ziebarth

Roland Bayer

Jun Jason Cai

Richard T Fox

Douglas B Schwarz

Clifford S Todd

William J Dubensky

Sten A Wallin

Kenneth B Stewart

Michael T Malanga

Hari Reddy

Chandan Saha

Barbara M Pyzik

Scott T Matteucci

Daniel Lawrence Dermody

James J O'Brien

Craig F Gorin

Kevin J Nilsen

Sanjay C Solanki

Tim L Allen

Amy Wetzel

Paul C Vosejpka

Mary Anne Leugers

Donald J Perettie

Daniel P Sophiea

Janet M Goss

Robert R McDonald

Bart R Jones

Jia Julia Liu

Timothy J Gallagher

Daniel Grohol

Sharon M Fuller

Christopher N Haney

David F Pawlowski

John Beckerdite

Joshua M Katzenstein

Timothy L Allen

Mark A Chartier

Irving G Snyder, Jr

Gary Lee Jialanella

Richard Allen Lundgard

Shaofu Wu

Stephen D Dunmead

John W Kramer

Xin Jin

Andrey N Soukhojak

Yuanqiao Rao

Paul G Clark

Robert Scott Moglia

Chinmau J Hwang

Anette Wagner

Niranjan Malvadkar

Timothy G Fawcett

David W Born

Qin Deng

Alveda J Williams

Dniel F Carroll

Scott J Jankowski

Daniel R Lister

Alexander Pecnenik

Alexander Pechenik

Robert D Krystosek

Arthur M Prunier

Jill R Marra

Terry I Hu

Steve J Martin

Peter C Saucier

Hari P Reddy

Jun Cai

Arthur R Prunier

Nicholas Myron Shinkel

A method of additive manufacturing is comprised of providing a material comprised of a ethyl cellulose polymer having an ethoxy content of 43% to 52% by mass and a plasticizer. The material is heated and dispensed through a nozzle to form an extrudate deposited on a base. The base, nozzle or combination thereof is moved while dispensing the material so that there is horizontal displacement between the base and nozzle in a predetermined pattern to form an initial layer of the material on the base and successive layers of the material are adhered on the initial layer to form an additive manufactured part by repeating the aforementioned steps. The article formed of the ethyl cellulose polymer may be used in many applications such as those related to the pharmaceutical and food industries.

Method to additive manufacture biocompatible material and articles made by the method

An additive manufactured article is comprised of at least two adhered layers of extrudates () comprised of a thermoset material having therein a phase change material, wherein the phase change material undergoes a phase change at a temperature less than where the thermoset material decomposes. The article may be made by dispensing a mixture comprised of an organic reactive material and phase change material forming extrudates that are 3D printed into an article having multiple layers of extrudates bound together and then allowing the organic reactive material to react forming a thermoset material having therein the phase change material to form the additive manufactured article. The shape of the article may be changed by heating to a temperature above the temperature where the phase change material undergoes a phase change while applying a force and then cooling below the phase change temperature. Likewise, the original shape may be returned by merely heating above the phase change temperature and then cooling in the absence of a force being applied.

Thermoset additive manufactured articles incorporating a phase change material and method to make them

An additive elastomeric manufactured part having improved surface finish is made by repeatedly extruding through a nozzle to build up layers of a material comprised of a prepolymer comprised of an isocyanate terminated prepolymer and a filler in an amount such that the material has a shear storage modulus G' of 100,000 to 300,000 Pa measured at an oscillation rate of 1 Hz and a relaxation time of 20 seconds to 360 seconds. It has been discovered that the particular material having these rheological properties is able to improve the surface finish of the additive manufactured part without slumping and is believed to be due to surface flow of material into valleys between the extrudates as they are being built up.

Method for improving the surface finish of additive manufactured articles

An additive elastomeric manufactured part is comprised of extrudates comprised of a reaction product of a multifunctional Michael donor and multifunctional Michael acceptor and a rheological modifier. The additive elastomeric manufactured part may have a high elongation and resistance to heat. Said part may be made by dispensing a mixture of the multifunctional Michael donor, multifunctional Michael acceptor, rheological modifier and a catalyst through a through a nozzle to form an extrudate deposited on a base. The base, nozzle or combination thereof is moved while dispensing the mixture so that there is horizontal displacement between the base and nozzle in a predetermined pattern to form an initial layer of the material on the base. Subsequent layers are then formed on the initial layer by repeating the dispensing and movement on top of the initial layer and layers that follow.

Additive manufactured carbon Michael addition articles and method to make them

A method of fabricating a three-dimensional object, the method comprising: combining at least one of a meth(acrylate), a (meth)acrylamide, a (meth)acrylonitrile, a styrene, an acrylonitrile, a vinyl acetate, a vinylcarbazole, a vinylpyridine, a vinyl ether, a vinyl chloride monomers, a polyfunctional monomer, and a polyfunctional prepolymer with an organic photoredox catalyst to provide a reaction mixture; depositing the reaction mixture; polymerizing the monomers by irradiating the reaction mixture with a light source; and repeating the depositing step until the three-dimensional object is formed.

Method of additive manufacturing using photoregulated radical polymerization

A three-dimensionally printed article comprises a build material and a support material, the support material comprising a hydroxypropyl methylcellulose having a DS of at least 1.0 and an MS of at least 0.6, wherein DS is the degree of substitution of methoxyl groups and MS is the molar substitution of hydroxypropoxyl groups. The support material can be removed from the build material by contacting the support material with water.

Method of printing a three-dimensional article

An additive elastomeric manufactured part having an elongation at break of at least 50% may be made by a method comprising the following. A material comprising a prepolymer and filler is first dispensed through a nozzle to form an extrudate deposited on a base. The base, nozzle or combination thereof is moved while dispensing the material so that there is horizontal displacement between the base and nozzle in a predetermined pattern to form an initial layer of the material on the base. Subsequent layers are then formed on the initial layer by repeating the dispensing and movement on top of the initial layer and layers that follow.

Method for additive manufacturing

Support materials for 3D printing

Skins and/or adhesive layers are formed on a porous ceramic honeycomb by applying a layer of a cement composition to a surface of the honeycomb and firing the cement composition. The cement composition contains a water-swellable clay, high aspect inorganic filler particles and water, and are nearly or completely devoid of particles smaller than 100 nm and a cellulosic polymer.

Cement and skinning material based on a water-swellable clay, and method for producing segmented or skinned ceramic honeycomb structures

A three-dimensionally printed article is comprised of a hydroxyethyl methylcellulose (HEMC) having a DS of 1.7 to 2.5 and an MS of at least 0.5, wherein DS is the degree of substitution of methoxyl groups and MS is the molar substitution of hydroxyethoxyl groups. The HEMC may advantageously be used as a support material when making a three-dimensionally printed article using a build material such as a different thermoplastic polymer such as a poly(acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene), polylactic acid, polyethylene and polyprophylene. When the HEMC is a support material it may be easily removed from the build material by contacting the three dimensionally printed article with water, which may be at ambient temperatures and a pH that is neutral or close to neutral.

The inventions is directed to a method for recovering support materials used in an additive manufacturing process. The method comprises exposing a precursor additive manufactured article comprised of a water soluble support polymer and an insoluble material to water. The water soluble support polymer is dissolved in the water. The remaining article is then removed from the water. The dissolved water soluble polymer is precipitated from the water. The precipitated polymer is separated from the water and any remaining water removed to recover the water soluble support polymer. The recovered water soluble support polymer may then be re-used to make further additive manufactured articles.

Recovery of additive manufacturing support materials

Porous aluminum-containing ceramic bodies are treated to form acicular mullite crystals onto the surfaces of their pores. The crystals are formed by contacting the body with a fluorine-containing gas or a source of both fluorine and silicon atoms to form fluorotopaz at the surface of the pores, and then decomposing the fluorotopaz to form acicular mullite crystals. This process allows the surface area of the ceramic body to be increased significantly while retaining the geometry (size, shape, general pore structure) of the starting body. The higher surface area makes the body more efficient as a particulate filter and also allows for easier introduction of catalytic materials.

Method for making porous mullite-containing composites

A porous discriminating layer is formed on a ceramic support having at least one porous wall by (a) establishing a flow of a gas stream containing agglomerates of particles and (b) calcining said deposited layer to form the discriminating layer. At least a portion of the particles are of a sinter-resistant material or a sinter-resistant material precursor. The particles have a size from 0.01 to 5 microns and the agglomerates have a size of from 10 to 200 microns. This method is an inexpensive and effective route to forming a discriminating layer onto the porous wall.

Method for applying discriminating layer onto porous ceramic filters

A porous ceramic composition having improved thermal stability is comprised of ceramic grains bonded together by grain boundary phase comprised of silica, yttrium and oxygen wherein the amount of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals and other transition metals not including rare earth metals is at most 2% by weight of the grain boundary phase.

Porous mullite bodies having improved thermal stability

A porous ceramic composition having improved thermal stability is comprised of ceramic grains bonded together by a grain boundary phase comprised of silica, rare earth element that is Eu, Gd, Nd or mixture thereof and oxygen and optionally yttrium, wherein the grain boundary phase has a amount of an alkali, an alkaline earth metal and a transition metal other than yttrium that is at most 2% by weight of the grain boundary phase.

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Midland, MI, United States of America

Aleksander Jozef Pyzik