ELECTROSTRICTIVELY ASSISTED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE OF PHYSICAL OBJECTS

The invention relates to a process for the additive manufacture of a 3-dimensional physical object at a predetermined formation site, where a first polymer composed of monomer units having first reactive pendant groups amenable to coupling, and a second polymer composed of monomer units having second reactive pendant groups amenable to coupling are crosslinked with one another to give the physical object, where the first polymer and the second polymer are introduced with the aid of a metering device into an electrical alternating-current field, where the electrical alternating-current field is generated between at least one first electrode arranged in the region of the outlet aperture of the metering device and at least one second electrode arranged at a distance from the first electrode, where the voltage, the frequency and the current intensity of the electrical alternating-current field are selected in such a way that the first reactive pendant groups of the first polymer and the second reactive pendant groups of the second polymer become bonded to one another via an electrostrictively assisted chemical reaction. The invention further relates to a device more particularly for implementing this process.