Embodiments herein relate to advanced polishing pads with tunable chemical, material and structural properties, and manufacturing methods related thereto. According to one or more embodiments herein, a polishing pad with improved properties may be produced by an additive manufacturing process, such as a three-dimensional (3D) printing process. Embodiments herein thus may provide an advanced polishing pad having discrete features and geometries, formed from at least two different materials that include functional polymers, functional oligomers, reactive diluents, addition polymer precursor compounds, catalysts, and curing agents. For example, the advanced polishing pad may be formed from a plurality of polymeric layers, by the automated sequential deposition of at least one polymer precursor composition followed by at least one curing step, wherein each layer may represent at least one polymer composition, and/or regions of different compositions. Embodiments herein further provide a polishing pad with polymeric layers that may be interpenetrating polymer networks.

Embodiments described herein relate to integrated abrasive (IA) polishing pads, and methods of manufacturing IA polishing pads using, at least in part, surface functionalized abrasive particles in an additive manufacturing process, such as a 3D inkjet printing process. In one embodiment, a method of forming a polishing article includes dispensing a first plurality of droplets of a first precursor, curing the first plurality of droplets to form a first layer comprising a portion of a sub-polishing element, dispensing a second plurality of droplets of the first precursor and a second precursor onto the first layer, and curing the second plurality of droplets to form a second layer comprising portions of the sub-polishing element and portions of a plurality of polishing elements. Here, the second precursor includes functionalized abrasive particles having a polymerizable group chemically bonded to surfaces thereof.

A method for the zonal polishing of a workpiece includes using a polishing tool to guide a structured polishing pad over the surface of workpiece to remove material from the workpiece. A structured polishing pad includes a structuring adapted to the movement of a polishing tool.

A coated abrasive article comprises a backing having first and second opposed major surfaces. A make layer is bonded to the first major surface. Agglomerate grinding aid particles are directly bonded to the make layer. At least a portion of the agglomerate grinding aid particles comprise grinding aid particles retained in a binder, and are arranged according to an open predetermined pattern. Abrasive particles are directly bonded to the make layer in spaces between the agglomerate grinding aid particles. A size layer is directly bonded to the make layer, agglomerate grinding aid particles, and abrasive particles. A method of making a coated abrasive article, in which the agglomerate grinding aid particles are deposited onto a curable make layer precursor prior to depositing abrasive particles onto the curable make layer precursor in spaces between the agglomerate grinding aid particles is also disclosed.

A grindstone that enables grinding, polishing, super-finish polishing by using the same grindstone, without clogging even if the grindstone is being used continuously, in which a grinding/polishing section for processing a workpiece has a honeycomb structure formed by arranging polygonal prisms with no clearance therebetween. The grindstone includes the grindstone columns consisting of abrasive grains and binder and having an axis in depth direction of grinding/polishing surface, which are disposed on intersections or wall portions of the honeycomb structure. Porous elastomer is disposed inside the honeycomb structure, thus making it possible to perform a super-finish polishing.

An annular grindstone includes a grindstone portion in which abrasive grains are fixed with a bonding material containing nickel and has a through hole at the center thereof. The grindstone portion has a laminated structure of a total of three or more layers in which a first layer and a second layer having a porous structure are alternately laminated on top of another along a penetrating direction of the through hole and both of outermost layers in the laminated structure which are exposed outside are the first layers.

A fixed abrasive article having a body including abrasive particles contained within a bond material, the abrasive particles including shaped abrasive particles or elongated abrasive particles having an aspect ratio of length:width of at least 1.1:1, each of the shaped abrasive particles or elongated abrasive particles having a predetermined position or a predetermined three-axis orientation.

An abrasive article comprising a first group including a plurality of shaped abrasive particles overlying a backing, wherein the plurality of shaped abrasive particles of the first group define a first non-shadowing distribution relative to each other.

An open coat abrasive article includes a backing having first and second opposed major surfaces, a make coat resin on at least one major surface of the backing, abrasive particles arranged on the backing at least partially embedded in the make coat resin, and a size coat resin on the first resin and the abrasive particles, wherein the shaped abrasive particles have an average peak count of no greater than about 40,000 per 24 in.sup.2. A method of abrading in a body-in-white application is also disclosed.

The present disclosure provides systems, devices, and methods for abrasive articles and manufacturing the same. A method includes receiving, at a shaped abrasive particle placement tool comprising cavities (1020), shaped abrasive particles (502, 504), determining whether a threshold number of cavities of the cavities (1020) includes a shaped abrasive particle situated properly therein, in response to determining there is not a threshold number of cavities of the cavities (1020) with a shaped abrasive particle (502, 504) situated properly therein, receiving, at the shaped abrasive particle placement tool, further shaped abrasive particles, and in response to determining that at least the threshold number of cavities of the cavities (1020) includes a shaped abrasive particle (502, 504) of the shaped abrasive particles situated properly therein, releasing the shaped abrasive particles (502, 504) from the shaped abrasive particle placement tool into a binding material (508) on a substrate (506) to adhere the shaped abrasive particles (502, 504) to the substrate (506).