The technology offers high printing speeds, continuous surface roughness without stairs or layers, of soft hydrogels with channels in the μm range. With this approach, Xolo addresses use cases in medical devices, artificial organs and smart lenses.

Additive manufacturing is being used in an increasingly wide range of applications. These include mass production of dental ceramics and high-performance components, medical devices, artificial organs and many others. Light-induced additive manufacturing techniques have proven successful due to their high spatial and temporal control, but still rely on point or layer-by-layer generation. Volumetric 3D printing is the next step after sequential additive manufacturing techniques. Xolo uses the innovative approach of xolography, which employs switchable photoinitiators to induce local polymerization within a confined monomer volume by crossing light beams of different wavelengths. The technique was demonstrated using a volumetric printer capable of producing three-dimensional objects with complex structural features as well as mechanical and optical functions. Compared to modern volumetric printing techniques, xolography has about ten times the resolution of other modern techniques.

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