Contact: Paul Karoff
Caption: This is an optical photograph of a translucent hexagonal honeycomb printed using the baseline epoxy ink with ~1 vol.% carbon fibers added for visualization. The aligned black fibers are clearly visible within the cell walls and throughout the structure. The complete structure is 3 mm high and 30x40 mm in area, with cells that are 6 mm from wall to wall. This was printed with a 200 μm nozzle at ~30 mm/s. The darkening at the nodes is due to the larger volume of material causing slightly elevated temperatures during the curing cycle.
Credit: Image courtesy of Brett G. Compton, Harvard University.
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