> The electrochemical approach allows for micron-scale feature resolution, complex internal features, high-purity materials, and rapid scalability to support mass manufacturing.
That just does not sound cheap. One envisions a cost-distributed 3D effort, with this used for certain critical parts.
I'd assume slow rather than expensive; if it's similar to other electroplating, think in terms of nm/s in the z-axis, 96,485 Amp-seconds* per mole of whatever metal you're putting down at a small (material dependent) number of volts of potential, so I'd guess OOM €10/kg process plus whatever the material cost is in the form of an electrolyte.
I'm imagining a human-sized tank, continuously growing things by electroplating, slowly, slowly, but eventually making something quite big.
I find this concept very appealing. I don't quite understand how it though, because I have view of electroplating as something which is very different from this precise and presumably at least somewhat fast process.
It’ll be like a resin printer, the hard part is the anode array which isn’t that hard, it seems that TFT screen manufacturers can make what’s needed and TFTs screens are really cheap.
That just does not sound cheap. One envisions a cost-distributed 3D effort, with this used for certain critical parts.