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Molecular model - Triacylglyceral - atomic scale model and fab challenge :) by econopotamus
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Last crawled date: 4 years, 1 month ago
Just a nice water-tight, manifold, 3d-friendly STL molecular model of triaclglycerol! See my profile for others. I have not been brave enough to fab this one yet! I do take molecule requests but I'm not necessarily fast about it :)
I use these to teach my kids about chemistry. This one is part of my series on the different parts of eating and what our body uses as building blocks and energy (this one is basically a simple fat). The other relevant molecules like Glucose, Lactose, Alanine, Glutamine are easier to print and also in my models.
For FDM these will need lots of supports and careful planning. I look forward to seeing some SLM versions, which should be easier.
The images are from various points in the modeling process. All molecules are subject to computational atomic bond optimization and simulation to get the correct bond angles. The atomic "ball" is scaled linearly with atomic radius, although the absolute radius shown is still just for modeling and ease of representation. The models should have enough triangles for very large fabrication.
I use these to teach my kids about chemistry. This one is part of my series on the different parts of eating and what our body uses as building blocks and energy (this one is basically a simple fat). The other relevant molecules like Glucose, Lactose, Alanine, Glutamine are easier to print and also in my models.
For FDM these will need lots of supports and careful planning. I look forward to seeing some SLM versions, which should be easier.
The images are from various points in the modeling process. All molecules are subject to computational atomic bond optimization and simulation to get the correct bond angles. The atomic "ball" is scaled linearly with atomic radius, although the absolute radius shown is still just for modeling and ease of representation. The models should have enough triangles for very large fabrication.