Du T. Nguyen

TL;DR: Silica inks are developed, which may be 3D printed and thermally processed to produce optically transparent glass structures with sub-millimeter features in forms ranging from scaffolds to monoliths.

TL;DR: This work makes the first demonstration of an encapsulated IL for CO2 capture, and develops two custom formulations, a silicone and an acrylate, that show promise for encapsulating water-lean solvents.

TL;DR: Multimaterial 3D printing enables a novel approach to fabrication of glass optics with tailored refractive index gradients and can be used to achieve a variety of conventional and unconventional optical functions in a flat glass component with no surface curvature.

TL;DR: The capability to tune the stiffness of printable silicone materials via careful control over the chemistry, network formation, and crosslink density of the ink formulations in order to overcome the challenging interplay between ink development, post-processing, material properties, and performance is demonstrated.