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ArticlePolymers2021

Partial Polymer Blend for Fused Filament Fabrication with High Thermal Stability.

Muhammad Harris, Johan Potgieter, Hammad Mohsin, Jim Qun Chen, Sudip Ray, Khalid Mahmood Arif

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Article in Polymers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Muhammad HarrisMassey Agrifood Digital Lab, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0003-2748-5282
Johan PotgieterMassey Agrifood Digital Lab, Massey University, Palmerston North 4410, New Zealand.
Hammad MohsinDepartment of Polymer Engineering, National Textile University, Faisalabad 37610, Pakistan.
Jim Qun ChenSchool of Food and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0001-5562-3123
Sudip RayNew Zealand Institute for Minerals to Materials Research, Greymouth 7805, New Zealand.
Khalid Mahmood ArifDepartment of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, SF&AT, Massey University, Auckland 0632, New Zealand.ORCID 0000-0001-9042-4509

Funding

Massey Agrifood Digital Labs, New Zealand Massey University
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The materials for large scale fused filament fabrication (FFF) are not yet designed to resist thermal degradation. This research presents a novel polymer blend of polylactic acid with polypropylene for FFF, purposefully designed with minimum feasible chemical grafting and overwhelming physical interlocking to sustain thermal degradation. Multi-level general full factorial ANOVA is performed for the analysis of thermal effects. The statistical results are further investigated and validated using different thermo-chemical and visual techniques. For example, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analyzes the effects of blending and degradation on intermolecular interactions. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) investigates the nature of blending (grafting or interlocking) and effects of degradation on thermal properties. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) validates the extent of chemical grafting and physical interlocking detected in FTIR and DSC. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is used to analyze the morphology and phase separation. The novel approach of overwhelmed physical interlocking and minimum chemical grafting for manufacturing 3D printing blends results in high structural stability (mechanical and intermolecular) against thermal degradation as compared to neat PLA.

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degradationfused deposition modelingpellet printingpolylactic acidpolypropylenethermal aging

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PMID34641168
PMCPMC8512697

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