Elgarisi, MorLuria, OmerKatzman, YotamWiderker, DanielFrumkin, ValeriBercovici, Moran2025-07-232025-07-232025-07M. Elgarisi, O. Luria, Y. Katzman, D. Widerker, V. Frumkin, M. Bercovici. 2025. "Fabrication of ophthalmic lenses by Fluidic Shaping" Additive Manufacturing, Volume 109, pp.104871-104871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2025.1048712214-8604https://hdl.handle.net/2144/50764Limited access to corrective eyewear remains a significant medical, societal, and economic challenge in developing countries, with more than 1 billion people suffering from uncorrected vision impairment. Philanthropy has failed to meet the demand, and local manufacturing using standard technologies remains beyond reach due to inadequate resources. We present a fluidic approach, leveraging the surface tension of liquid polymers, with which high-quality solid lenses, with any prescription, can be created without machining, polishing or any postprocessing steps. We provide an experimentally-validated analytical model relating the geometrical degrees of freedom to the desired prescription. Using a compact low-power device, we demonstrate that the fluidic approach allows the fabrication of industry-standard eyeglasses in several minutes, opening the door to advanced manufacturing in low-resource settings.p. 104871en© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Manufacturing engineeringMaterials engineeringArticle10.1016/j.addma.2025.1048710000-0002-3686-2441 (Frumkin, Valeri)0000-0002-7803-4791 (Bercovici, Moran)1181568