Magnetically Controlled Casting Process
This exciting technology offers several advantages over traditional casting processes while producing similar results such as the ability to control the casting process, lower production costs, scalability of the casting process, and the ease of production. Further, the solid materials produced can be used as molds for casting of other organic and inorganic materials. This casting process can fabricate molds that can be used in rapid prototyping, composite structural materials, complex energy storage devices, and microfluidics. Some of the materials that can be produced or grown in these molds include biological materials (i.e. cells, tissues), organic materials (i.e. polymers, chemotherapeutics), and inorganic materials (i.e. structural ceramics, catalysts, semiconductors). The University of California is actively seeking licensing partnerships for this technology. A US non-provisional patent application is pending for this technology.
UCR Professor David Kisailus has developed an exciting one-step casting process that produces solid materials displaying controlled structural ordering into a wide range of sizes and shapes. The casting process utilizes a liquid material that is placed in a magnetic field and the liquid material solidifies over a ferrofluid resin/metal interface. The magnetic field allows for the ferrofluid to produce predictable and controllable patterns into the liquid material. The range of patterns generated includes honeycombs, labyrinths, spikes, ridges, and concentric rings.
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