2. 3D Printing

• Also called Additive Manufacturing(AM).
• Used to create a 3D object in which layers of material are formed under computer control to create an object.
• Objects can be of any shape or geometry and are produced using digital model data from a 3D model or another electronic data source such as an Additive Manufacturing File (AMF) file.

3. Injection Moulding

• It is a manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting material into a mould.
• Can be performed with a host of materials like metals, glass, elastomers, confections, thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers.

4. Lamina Emergent Mechanism

• A lamina emergent mechanism is a type of compliant mechanism fabricated from flat planar materials (the lamina), with motion created from the fabrication plane.
• An LEM in its initial stage is flat like a sheet and unfolds to simulate movement by the interaction at the seams which are essentially living hinges fabricated into the material.

5. Photo-lithography

• Also called optical lithography or UV lithography.
• It is a process used in microfabrication to pattern parts on a thin film or the bulk of a substrate (also called a wafer).
• It uses light to transfer a geometric pattern from a photomask (also called an optical mask) to a photosensitive (that is, light-sensitive) chemical photoresist on the substrate.
• A series of chemical treatments then either etches the exposure pattern into the material or enables deposition of a new material in the desired pattern upon the material underneath the photoresist.

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