ReviewAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2022
Foam 3D Printing of Thermoplastics: A Symbiosis of Additive Manufacturing and Foaming Technology.
Review in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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24 citing papers in PubMed.
- Unveiling the Printability and Performance of 3D Printed Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Stretchable Foams.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2026Article
- Microsphere-Templated Conductive Syntactic Foams for Recyclable and Additively Manufactured Soft Electronics.Advanced healthcare materials · 2026Article
- Recent Trends in Manufacturing of Thermoplastic Sandwich Structures: A Review.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Recent Advances in the Fabrication of High-Performance Polypropylene Micro-Nano Composites via Supercritical Foaming.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Analysis of 3D printed longitudinal Flatfoot pads with lattice structures using various microfoaming filament.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Dynamically crosslinked-interpenetrating networks for sustainable 3D-printed elastomeric foams.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The Future of Sustainable Packaging: Exploring Biodegradable Solutions Through Extrusion, Thermo-Expansion, 3D Printing and Supercritical Fluid from Agro-Industry Waste.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Performance Enhancement of Lightweight PLA Parts Printed by FFF Using Taguchi-GRA Method.Polymers · 2025Article
- Vat photopolymerization of stretchable foam with highly entangled and crosslinked structures.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Foams with 3D Spatially Programmed Mechanics Enabled by Autonomous Active Learning on Viscous Thread Printing.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Characterization of PLA/LW-PLA Composite Materials Manufactured by Dual-Nozzle FDM 3D-Printing Processes.Polymers · 2024Article
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- Technical development and application of supercritical COScientific reports · 2024Article
- A Review of the Preparation of Porous Fibers and Porous Parts by a Novel Micro-Extrusion Foaming Technique.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- 3D-Printed Piezoelectret Based on Foamed Polylactic Acid for Energy-Harvesting and Sensing Applications.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Optimisation of 3D Printing for Microcellular Polymers.Polymers · 2023Article
- Current Trend and New Opportunities for Multifunctional Bio-Scaffold Fabrication via High-Pressure Foaming.Journal of functional biomaterials · 2023Review
- On the Creation and Optical Microstructure Characterisation of Additively Manufactured Foam Structures (AMF).Polymers · 2023Article
- Synthesis and Applications of Elastomeric Polymerized High Internal Phase Emulsions (PolyHIPEs).ACS omega · 2023Review
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Abstract
Due to their light-weight and cost-effectiveness, cellular thermoplastic foams are considered as important engineering materials. On the other hand, additive manufacturing or 3D printing is one of the emerging and fastest growing manufacturing technologies due to its advantages such as design freedom and tool-less production. Nowadays, 3D printing of polymer compounds is mostly limited to manufacturing of solid parts. In this context, a merged foaming and printing technology can introduce a great alternative for the currently used foam manufacturing technologies such as foam injection molding. This perspective review article tackles the attempts taken toward initiating this novel technology to simultaneously foam and print thermoplastics. After explaining the basics of polymer foaming and additive manufacturing, this article classifies different attempts that have been made toward generating foamed printed structures while highlighting their challenges. These attempts are clustered into 1) architected porous structures, 2) syntactic foaming, 3) post-foaming of printed parts, and eventually 4) printing of blowing agents saturated filaments. Among these, the latest approach is the most practical route although it has not been thoroughly studied yet. A filament free approach that can be introduced as a potential strategy to unlock the difficulties to produce printed foam structures is also proposed.
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