Flash New synthons for 3D-printing of energetic materials - ICS84 The 84th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society

Sagi Sevilia ¹ Abhaya K. Mishra ¹ Michael Zelner ¹ Matthew Yong ¹ Dan Grinstein ¹ Olga Meikler ^1,2 Levi Gottlieb ² Chagit Denekamp ² Yoav Eichen ¹

¹Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
²RAFAEL, Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., Haifa, Israel

2D and 3D digital additive manufacturing (AM) techniques offer the ability to form complex solid objects that are difficult to make using subtractive techniques. In the past decade, different groups are involved in the development of 3D printing technologies for printing of gas generators and other energetic materials, with the aim of integrating these materials with MEMS and electronic devices in two and three dimensional elements. The motivation for developing printing methods for producing energetic systems is clear. These techniques offer spatially resolved control of material morphology, density, compositional grading and mesoscopic structure in ways that are currently unavailable.

We explore the possibility of harnessing stereolithography (SLA) as well as fused deposition modeling (FDM) techniques for additive manufacturing energetic materials.