Sustainable Extraction of Amorphous Silica for use in Additive Manufacturing

Ben Groogan; Conor McCrickard; Jawad Ullah; Faisal Manzoor

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Sustainable Extraction of Amorphous Silica for use in Additive Manufacturing

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Ben Groogan¹^{, *}, Conor McCrickard¹, Jawad Ullah¹, Faisal Manzoor¹

¹School of Engineering, Ulster University, Belfast, BT25 1ED, UK

^*Corresponding author. Email: groogan-b@ulster.ac.uk

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Ben Groogan

Available Online 29 October 2026.

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Keywords: Polyetheretherketone (PEEK); Amorphous Silica; Additive Manufacturing; 3D-printing
Abstract: The use of Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is common in biomedical applications due to its excellent mechanical properties, chemical resistance and biocompatibility. However, the main limitation of PEEK for biomedical applications is its bioinert nature, resulting in a lack of bioactive response in-vivo. A lack of bioactivity results in pure PEEK not integrating with surrounding bone and tissue, therefore not being a suitable alternative material to commonly used metallic-based materials such as titanium. However, bioactive fillers can be used to stimulate biological activity. Amorphous silica is a novel bioceramic when combined with PEEK to create a composite filament suitable for fused filament fabrication (FFF), a type of additive manufacturing, for creating patient-specific implants. Sustainable silica extraction is possible in high purity from bio-waste.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the Global Symposium on Adaptive Manufacturing (GSAM 2026)
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date: 29 October 2026
ISBN: 978-94-6239-813-9
ISSN: 2352-5401
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6239-813-9_9 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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