RESEARCH

DiMetal-300 multi-material metal 3D printer
Administrator: Zhang Yingjie
Equipment introduction: Dimetal-300 is a multi-material metal 3D printing equipment developed by Lejia, which can form 1-4 kinds of materials at one time, realizing the one-time processing and forming of multi-material parts, meeting the diversified requirements of material properties of complex parts, and improving the material design space of parts in complex use scenarios and working conditions. Applied in electric power, industrial mold, basic scientific research, aerospace, education and multi-material experiment, etc.
MTS 860 Hybrid Manufacturing System
Administrator: Zhang Yingjie
Equipment introduction: MTS 860 hybrid manufacturing system contains two main subsystems. One is a laser directed energy deposition machine, another one is a five-axis machining center. The system is configured with sealed gas control module, laser spot shaping module, two wavelength temperature melt pool monitoring module, MasterCAM and system control software. It can fabricate part with a variety of materials, including nickel alloy, ferrous alloy, titanium alloy and so on. The system is mainly used for complex part fabrication and repair in the field of aerospace, military industry and high-end mold.
Arc Hybrid Manufacturing System
Administrator: Zhang Yingjie
Equipment introduction: Arc Hybrid Manufacturing System contains a robot with a CMT power source and a high loading milling robot. The system is configured with a single axis positioner, a two-axis positioner, a motorized spindle, a 12m robotic track, induced laser, blue light measuring system and digital twin system. The system is mainly used for the research on the material-structure-function integrated design and manufacturing of the part with large size.
Biological agent forming system
Administrator: Zhang Yingjie
Equipment introduction: Biological agent forming system includes six-axis mechanical arm used for bioprinting, and configured with AII biosafety cabinet. Additionally,  it can install 10 tools and configured with process monitoring system, platform temperature control system and bacteria and cell culture system. The biological system is mainly used for biotissue printing, drug development and bioprinting standard establishment.
Continuous-fiber composite automated manufacturing system
Administrator: Zhang Yuanfang
Equipment introduction: The continuous-fiber composite automated manufacturing system consists of an industrial robot, a fiber placement tool head and a 3D printing tool head. The system offers functionalities such as automated fiber placement (AFP)/ tape winding on 3D objects and continuous fiber additive manufacturing. The system is suitable for material and processing research on both thermoset and thermoplastic composite, customization of software and educational purposes.
Aerosol jetting system for encapsulation of functional materials
Administrator: Zhang Yuanfang
Equipment introduction: The aerosol jetting system is capable of realizing microfabrication and microencapsulation of multiple functional materials without stenciling. It comes with 5-axis of coordinated print motion to implement conformal deposition of various functional material inks/pastes onto planar and complex 3D substrates, with a minimum line width of 10 μm. The system is suitable for research on functional material microstructures with applications in fields like flexible electronics, smart wearables, smart sensors, brain-computer interface, Internet of Things, etc.
Digital prototyping system for high-performance composite microstructures
Administrator: Zhang Yuanfang
Equipment introduction: The digital prototyping system for high-performance composite microstructures consists of a microinjection molding machine, a liquid silicone rubber (LSR) injection module as well as temperature control and drying accessories. The system is capable of realizing composite injection molding including LSR and all thermoplastic engineering materials. In addition, the microinjection molding machine is compatible with metal and ceramic injection molding. The system is suitable for research in field like biomimetic surfaces and miniature soft robotics.
Flexible discrete production line
Administrator: Wu Kai
Equipment introduction: Flexible discrete production line has the characteristics of highly interconnected, dynamic reconstruction, massive data, intelligent interaction, and deep integration; all hardware and software elements in the system are connected through the network; resources are dynamically reorganized according to processing needs; a large amount of data is generated in real time; Objects and objects, objects and people can interact naturally; all elements work closely together to complete manufacturing tasks flexibly and efficiently. It provides a research platform for intelligent manufacturing, industrial Internet, industrial big data, digital twins.
Constant temperature and humidity experimental environment system
Administrator: Lei Jincheng
Equipment introduction: The constant temperature and humidity experimental environment system is applied to maintain the environmental temperature, humidity, and cleanliness during manufacturing to meet the requirements of micro/nano fabrication (Temperature fluctuation: 22±2℃; Humidity fluctuation: 50±10 %RH; Cleanliness: thousand level). It is used in the platform of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Manufacturing to fabricate novel micro/nano devices including micro/nano robots, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), and microfluidic lab-on-a-chip devices for applications in biomedical, quantum communication, information storage, etc.
High-precision intelligent additive and subtractive manufacturing system
Administrator: Lei Jincheng
Equipment introduction: The high-precision intelligent additive and subtractive manufacturing system consists of two parts: a high-precision femtosecond laser manufacturing system and an intelligent process monitoring and control center.High-precision femtosecond laser manufacturing system: The Monaco 1035 femtosecond laser manufactured by Coherent can simultaneously achieve high output power (maximum 60 W), high pulse energy (maximum 40 µJ@750 kHz), and large scope of tunable repetition rate (single pulse to 50 MHz). And the laser has extremely high stability, where the pointing stability is less than 25 µrad/ºC, and the output power fluctuation is less than 2% RMS. It can process a wide range of materials for various fabrication requirements.
Micro/nano fabrication, Measurement and control platform
Administrator: Yu Tingting
Equipment introduction: The micro/nano fabrication, measurement and control platform contains an optical forming system, a high vacuum ebeam evaporation system, a micro/nano dispersion instrument, a profiliermeter and a 3D high-precision profile measuring instrument, an acousto-optic multi-field micro/nano control system. It is suitable for the fabrication and characterization of 2D/3D micro/nano multi-material structures and the research of the development of micro/nano propellers and their control.