What does SFF stand for?

Solid freeform fabrication (SFF) processes offer a new opportunity for injection molding with rapid thermal response.

Defined as the automatic construction of objects using solid freeform fabrication, rapid prototyping was first used in the late 1980s to produce models and sample parts.

The papers discuss various aspects of the synthesis and processing of ceramics, glasses, and composites in sections covering chemical vapor deposition, combustion synthesis, reaction forming, polymer processing, electrochemical deposition, plasma synthesis, solid freeform fabrication, floc-casting, solution deposition, nanopowders and nanorods, coatings and films, composites, and geopolymers.

Dickens, Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, 65 (1998).

EMANUEL SACHS [1] EDWARD WYLONIS [1] SAMUEL ALLEN [2] MICHAEL CIMA [2] HONGLIN GUO [2] A Solid Freeform Fabrication Process called Three Dimensional Printing is applied to the fabrication of injection molding tooling with cooling channels which are conformal to the molding cavity.

It also describes recent technologies such as the synthesis of nanoscale powders and solid freeform fabrication.