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A novel substrate with high thermal conductivity improves powder-bed fusion metal additive manufacturing.
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In current implementations of powder-bed fusion metal additive manufacturing, metal powders are directly fused to the metal substrate. To aid in the removal of the part, miniaturized truss-shaped support structures are typically used to fuse the part to the build platform. One downside of this method of manufacturing parts is that machining is required to separate the printed parts from the building platform.The present invention improves this procedure by replacing the metal platform with a novel substrate with high thermal conductivity.
Key Benefits
In current implementations of powder-bed fusion metal additive manufacturing, metal powders are directly fused to the metal substrate. To aid in the removal of the part, miniaturized truss-shaped support structures are typically used to fuse the part to the build platform. One downside of this method of manufacturing parts is that machining is required to separate the printed parts from the building platform.The present invention improves this procedure by replacing the metal platform with a novel substrate with high thermal conductivity.