ArticlePolymers2023
Mechanical and Structural Properties of Polyhydroxybutyrate as Additive in Blend Material in Additive Manufacturing for Medical Applications.
Article in Polymers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Rheology-Guided PHB/PBAT/MgO Nanocomposites for FDM Printing with Balanced Mechanical and Degradation Performance.ACS omega · 2026Article
- Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB): Critical Perspectives on Material Properties, Production Advances, and Challenges Toward Sustainable Commercialisation.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Sustainable Production of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) Using Eucalyptus Bark: Integration with Green Downstream Processing.ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering · 2026Article
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- A Review of Polylactic Acid (PLA) and Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) as Bio-Sourced Polymers for Membrane Production Applications.Membranes · 2025Review
- A Review of Bioelectrochemical Strategies for Enhanced Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Materials designed to degrade: structure, properties, processing, and performance relationships in polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymers.Polymer chemistry · 2025Review
- Recycling and 3D-Printing Biodegradable Membranes for Gas Separation-toward a Membrane Circular Economy.ACS applied engineering materials · 2024Article
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Abstract
Today, additive manufacturing (AM) is considered one of the vital tenets of the industry 4.0 revolution due to its high productivity, decentralized production and rapid prototyping. This work aims to study the mechanical and structural properties of polyhydroxybutyrate as an additive in blend materials and its potential in medical applications. PHB/PUA blend resins were formulated with 0 wt.%, 6 wt.%, 12 wt.% and 18 wt.% of PHB concentration. Stereolithography or an SLA 3D printing technique were used to evaluate the printability of the PHB/PUA blend resins. Additionally, from FESEM analysis, a change was observed in PUA's microstructure, with an additional number of voids spotted. Furthermore, from XRD analysis, as PHB concentration increased, the crystallinity index (CI) also increased. This indicates the brittleness properties of the materials, which correlated to the weak performance of the tensile and impact properties. Next, the effect of PHB loading concentration within PHB/PUA blends and aging duration towards the mechanical performance of tensile and impact properties was also studied by using analysis of variance (ANOVA) with a two-way method. Finally, 12 wt.% of PHB/PUA was selected to 3D print the finger splint due to its characteristics, which are compatible to be used in finger bone fracture recovery.
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