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Robocasting of composite materials requires printing multiple ink compositions.<br />

Such printing may be achieved in several ways: 1) serial extrusion through a nozzle array,<br />

Figure 2.12b, 2) parallel extrusion through a mixing nozzle, Figure 2.12c, and 3) one that<br />

combines these two extrusion features. Preliminary success in parallel extrusion has been<br />

demonstrated in recent study; 31 but serial extrusion is used for fabrication of the<br />

composite structures in this work.<br />

Figure 2.12 Schematic illustrations of multi-ink printing: a) the robotic gantry system<br />

used by robocasting, b) the arrayed nozzle assembly for serial extrusion, and c) the<br />

mixing nozzle assembly for parallel extrusion. 32<br />

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