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Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by lucioperca on Thursday June 18, 2020 @02:57PM (#23566383)
See the publications of Frederik Kotz: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=TQBKvzsAAAAJ&hl=de

Citing from the Nature publication:

"The shrinkage of the part during the sintering process is isotropic and dependent on the solid loading (hence can be ­calculated; see Supplementary Information). The sintering shrinkage for stereo- lithography and microstereolithography does not depend on the scale of the sintered parts (for example, the honeywell structure in Fig. 1a with a solid loading of 37.5 vol% showed the expected linear shrinkage of 27.88% in height from 3.05 mm to 2.2 mm and width from 2.177 cm to 1.57 cm)."

"During a final sintering step at 1,300 °C the density of the brown part is increased (ρ final = 2.2 g cm −3 ) to that of high-quality fused silica glass with no remaining porosity and no cracks."

But of course these processes could be quite sensitive to hard to control parameters.

Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by blix on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:37PM (#23567728)
If they can reliably get those densities and shrinkages from this procedure that is quite impressive. After a brief look through the papers, there is some promising evidence but I'd like to see a more thorough characterization, especially demonstrating spatial homogeneity of porosity and shrinkage.

It's certainly a very interesting technology, and I think it could potentially be applicable to materials beyond glass.

Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by jlokier on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:04PM (#23568031)
> I think it could potentially be applicable to materials beyond glass.

It's been used for quite a few years already. Precious metal clay is basically this. You can 3d print with it, then fire it and it turns into solid metal.

Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by blix on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:21PM (#23568175)
What's most interesting to me is subtractive manufacturing of ceramics.

From what I've seen in metals, there's a preference for powder bed technologies over binder technologies. But it's not like I have a wide scope of current industry or research.