Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing
Fundamentals, Applications, and Trends
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Ignazio Roppolo
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 1 6 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 1 6 2 - 9
Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing: Fundamentals, Applications, and Trends provides a complete overview of these cutting-edge 3D-printing techni… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDigital Light Processing and Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing: Fundamentals, Applications, and Trends provides a complete overview of these cutting-edge 3D-printing techniques, the materials they’re capable of producing, and how best those techniques and materials can be applied. The first section of the book covers the fundamentals, with chapters discussing the core principles of vat photopolymerization, related technological requirements, the characteristics of digital light processing (DLP) and stereolithography (SL) compared to other light-induced methods, as well as the chemistry and materials used in the processes, including how to formulate a resin. Section two covers applications, such as design for structural applications, as well as DLP and SL use in dentistry, soft robotics, sensors, biomedicine, microfluidics, catalysis and chemical engineering, and more. The book concludes with a section discussing current trends and future directions for the technology, with chapters analyzing sustainable materials including efforts to substitute synthetic materials with bio-based ones, vitrimers, controlled polymers, and 4D printing and DLP and SL in hybrid AM.
- Covers the fundamental aspects of digital light processing (DLP) and stereolithographic (SL) additive manufacturing (AM), including chemical approaches, technical parameters, guidelines to compound printable inks, and the pros and cons of these methods compared to others
- Features various applications of the methods and materials produced
- Discusses sustainable materials, 4D printing, and hybrid manufacturing
Researchers, upper level undergrads and graduate students in engineering and materials science, chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, and biology
Section 1: Fundamentals of Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
1. Principles of Vat Photopolymerization
2. Principles of Light Induced 3D Printing and Digital Light Processing Technology
3. Formulations of Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography: Chemistries and Materials
Section 2: Applications of Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
4. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Structural Applications
5. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography in Dentistry
6. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Soft Robotics
7. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Sensing
8. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Biomedical Applications
9. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Microfluidics
10. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Catalysis and Chemical Engineering
11. Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing with Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
Section 3: Evolution Trends of Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
12. Sustainable Materials for Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
13. Vitrimers for Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
14. Controlled Polymers in Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
15. 4D Printing in Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
16. Photoiniating Systems in Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
1. Principles of Vat Photopolymerization
2. Principles of Light Induced 3D Printing and Digital Light Processing Technology
3. Formulations of Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography: Chemistries and Materials
Section 2: Applications of Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
4. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Structural Applications
5. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography in Dentistry
6. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Soft Robotics
7. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Sensing
8. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Biomedical Applications
9. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Microfluidics
10. Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography for Catalysis and Chemical Engineering
11. Multimaterial Additive Manufacturing with Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
Section 3: Evolution Trends of Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
12. Sustainable Materials for Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
13. Vitrimers for Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
14. Controlled Polymers in Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
15. 4D Printing in Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
16. Photoiniating Systems in Digital Light Processing and Stereolithography
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443301612
- eBook ISBN: 9780443301629
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Ignazio Roppolo
Dr. Ignazio Roppolo is Assistant Professor in Experimental Physics of Matter at Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. Dr. Roppolo is leader of a laboratory specifically focused on light-induced 3D printing. He has published more than 90 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, with more than 2700 citations, among which more than 40 papers specifically focused on light induced 3D printing and DLP. After achieving a PhD in Material Science and technology in 2012, he moved to Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), and since 2015 his research aimed at exploring novel fabrication routes through a materials science-based approach to 3D printing, merging chemical, physical and design characteristics to obtain synergistic proper. When he moved to Politecnico, in 2017, he started to apply the know-how developed in light induced 3D printing in different applications filed such as biomedical, sensor, chemical engineering and new and sustainable materials.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Experimental Physics of Matter, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy