Post by Leonard Siebert

MAJOR PUBLICATION ALERT We printed borosilicate glass without oven sintering for the first time. https://lnkd.in/gZbUZuFX Philipp Schadte and I developed the Laser-assisted Melt Printing (LAMP) process. You deposit a slurry of borosilicate particles and melt it with a high powder CO2 laser layer by layer for optically transparent glasses. The process proves very versatile and can alleviate powder-bed related issues like material restrictions or monomaterial only printing. What's more, we directly synthesized gold, silver and gold-silver nanoparticles DURING THE PRINTING process and could change their concentration via the laser power. This is a very important milestone in my career, as it is a process entirely dreamed, built, optimized and capitalized on from scratch. Looking forward to printing medically relevant ceramics like zirconia (dental implants) and hydroxylapatite (bone implants) with local functionalization. Thank you to all the students who constantly had to try out my wild ideas until it finally worked, especially Kolja Krohne, Leonard Stock, Anika Felis, Lukas Kleinow, Lola Schockemöhle. Thanks also to all our other authors Lorenz Kienle, Ole Gronenberg, Jürgen Carstensen, Jakob Offermann for their excellent contributions. Stay tuned for more, this only where the journey starts!