stereolithography

[ster-ee-oh-li-thog-ruh-fee]

noun

1. a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.

Other Word Forms

• stereolithographic adjective

Example Sentences

For what it’s worth, the Kranio X is intended to be a hi-fi plug-in speaker, costing $269 under the first of two pledge tiers, with the other costing $359 alongside a poster, an engraving, and a copy of the stereolithography file the device will be manufactured from.

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The researchers were also able to use multiple materials to build each hollow finger by selecting ones that could be 3-D printed in a process called multimaterial stereolithography.

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Now, a team of researchers from the University of Washington and Rice University say they have produced functional tissue models using a 3-D printing technique called projection stereolithography.

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The basic technology of projection stereolithography has been around since the 1980s, but “it wasn’t designed with biology in mind; it was used to make plastic structures,” says Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice’s Brown School of Engineering and a co-author of the new paper.

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For a 3-D printer to create the fine vasculature an organ requires for nutrient delivery and waste removal, it needs the precision offered by stereolithography; but for transplants it would need safe, water-soluble photoreactors.

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