Additive Manufacturing of Highly Precise Structural and Functional Ceramics
Abstract:
Additive manufacturing offers unique design freedom but is still rarely used for ceramics due to the stringent requirements on density, mechanical performance and reliability. Lithography-based Ceramic Manufacturing (LCM) is an additive manufacturing process that addresses these challenges by enabling the production of dense and highly precise ceramic parts directly from CAD data.
The presentation will give an overview of the LCM process and its potential for structural and functional ceramics. Applications ranging from biomedical implants to electronic and energy components will be shown. Recent developments in materials and process optimization will be highlighted. Finally, current challenges and future opportunities for the industrial use of LCM will be discussed.
Biography:
Dominik Brouczek was born in 1989 in Salzburg, Austria. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Technical Chemistry from the Vienna University of Technology in 2014 and 2018, specializing in high-performance materials. He joined Lithoz in Vienna in 2017 as a Materials Engineer and has been serving as Head of Materials Engineering in the R&D department since 2023, focusing on the development of ceramic materials and photocurable suspensions for additive manufacturing. Additionally, he contributes to national and international research projects in the field of materials and application development.
