Design and development of desktop fiber and fabric manufacturing system for advanced materials

This thesis presents two novel desktop fiber manufacturing systems and a desktop fabric manufacturing system. The desktop fiber manufacturing system achieved two goals. The first goal was the use of the system to teach smart manufacturing fundamentals. The second goal was to develop a low-cost platform for prototyping the fiber for biological and neurological research applications. The educational system was deployed in multiple classes, which proved to be a useful tool for teaching smart manufacturing. The advanced fiber manufacturing system was able to produce a variety of fibers using different preform materials. The preform materials included fibers with Polycarbonate(PC) core and Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA), hollow fibers with PC and PMMA, and 3 layer fiber with Polystyrene (PS) cladding, Polycaprolactone (PCL) layer, and PS core. These fibers were used for neural probing and cell scaffold.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Kim, David Donghyun.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Brian Anthony.

• Mechanical Engineering.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127054

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127054