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by darksaints 726 days ago
A couple of questions:

1) can you print on oxide, nitride, or carbide ceramics?

2) can you print on shaped materials? Like for example, printing a pcb directly onto the inner side of a rigid shell for an aerofoil/wing?

3) what sort of material restrictions come with electrochemical printing? Can you do aluminum? Titanium?

4) what is the minimum feature size? Could this, for example, print a controlled porous/wick structure with pore sizes around 50um?

5) for those of us without the capital to buy a printer, will you also offer printing services?

1 comments

1 - Yes, we are currently doing this 2 - Right now our focus is on flat substrates, curved surfaces are a little trickier 3 - Any pure metal or alloy system that can be electroplated would be compatible with our approach. Aluminum and Titanium are difficult but not impossible. We're focused on copper as our first commercial material but have other material systems in development. 4 - Our current pixel size is 33 microns, ~50micron negative features should be doable. Controlled wick structures are actually a really good application of the technology 5 - Our primary business model actually is to offer print services to our customers. Feel free to reach out to me via email in profile if there's an application you'd like to explore