Group leader: Umberto Anselmi Tamburini

Group member: Mauro Coduri

In recent years there has been a rapid spread of 3D printing and Additive Manufacturing (AM) techniques both in the research and industrial fields. These techniques, initially developed for polymeric materials, are also being applied to the realization of metallic and ceramic objects, proposing themselves as an alternative to the classic processing techniques. In this context, some methods are already consolidated and can be applied on a large scale, such as Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) or selective laser melting (SLM) for metallic materials and stereolithography for ceramics. However, these techniques often present significant limitations. They require expensive and complex-to-operate equipment, often involving toxic or flammable materials, or presenting little flexibility, making them available to only a limited number of materials. The activity of our research group is aimed at the development and dissemination of innovative AM techniques with the goal of reducing some of these limitations. These techniques are generally based on two-stage processes, in which the first process carries out the deposition of powders of the required material in both direct forms and in the form of pastes or colloids, while the second involves the sintering of these preforms using fast, innovative densification techniques. Particular attention is also paid to the use of processes that do not involve toxic or harmful products for the environment.

  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Architettura, Università di Pavia
  • Faculty of Engineering & Design, University of Bath 

Airoldi, Lorenzo, Riccardo Brucculeri, Primo Baldini, Francesco Pini, Barbara Vigani, Silvia Rossi, Ferdinando Auricchio, Umberto Anselmi-Tamburini, and Simone Morganti.
"3D Printing of Copper Using Water-Based Colloids and Reductive Sintering." 
3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing (2021).

Airoldi, Lorenzo, Umberto Anselmi‐Tamburini, Barbara Vigani, Silvia Rossi, Piercarlo Mustarelli, and Eliana Quartarone.
"Additive Manufacturing of Aqueous‐Processed LiMn2O4 Thick Electrodes for High‐Energy‐Density Lithium‐Ion Batteries."
Batteries & Supercaps 3, no. 10 (2020): 1040-1050.