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Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles as a Mechanical Boosting Agent in Material Extrusion 3D-Printed Polycarbonate
In this work, the effect of silicon carbide (carborundum, SiC), as a boosting agent of the mechanical response of the polycarbonate (PC) polymer, was investigated. The work aimed to fabricate nanocomposites with an improved mechanical performance and to further expand the utilization of 3D printing...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9459990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36080567 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14173492 |
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author | Petousis, Markos Vidakis, Nectarios Mountakis, Nikolaos Grammatikos, Sotirios Papadakis, Vassilis David, Constantine N. Moutsopoulou, Amalia Das, Subrata C. |
author_facet | Petousis, Markos Vidakis, Nectarios Mountakis, Nikolaos Grammatikos, Sotirios Papadakis, Vassilis David, Constantine N. Moutsopoulou, Amalia Das, Subrata C. |
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description | In this work, the effect of silicon carbide (carborundum, SiC), as a boosting agent of the mechanical response of the polycarbonate (PC) polymer, was investigated. The work aimed to fabricate nanocomposites with an improved mechanical performance and to further expand the utilization of 3D printing in fields requiring an enhanced material response. The nanocomposites were produced by a thermomechanical process in various SiC concentrations in order to evaluate the filler loading in the mechanical enhancement. The samples were 3D printed with the material extrusion (MEX) method. Their mechanical performance was characterized, following international standards, by using dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and tensile, flexural, and Charpy’s impact tests. The microhardness of the samples was also measured. The morphological characteristics were examined, and Raman spectra revealed their structure. It was found that SiC can improve the mechanical performance of the PC thermoplastic. A 19.5% increase in the tensile strength was found for the 2 wt.% loading nanocomposite, while the 3 wt.% nanocomposite showed a 16% increase in the flexural strength and a 35.9% higher impact strength when compared to the unfilled PC. No processability issues were faced for the filler loadings that have been studied here. |
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spelling | pubmed-94599902022-09-10 Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles as a Mechanical Boosting Agent in Material Extrusion 3D-Printed Polycarbonate Petousis, Markos Vidakis, Nectarios Mountakis, Nikolaos Grammatikos, Sotirios Papadakis, Vassilis David, Constantine N. Moutsopoulou, Amalia Das, Subrata C. Polymers (Basel) Article In this work, the effect of silicon carbide (carborundum, SiC), as a boosting agent of the mechanical response of the polycarbonate (PC) polymer, was investigated. The work aimed to fabricate nanocomposites with an improved mechanical performance and to further expand the utilization of 3D printing in fields requiring an enhanced material response. The nanocomposites were produced by a thermomechanical process in various SiC concentrations in order to evaluate the filler loading in the mechanical enhancement. The samples were 3D printed with the material extrusion (MEX) method. Their mechanical performance was characterized, following international standards, by using dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) and tensile, flexural, and Charpy’s impact tests. The microhardness of the samples was also measured. The morphological characteristics were examined, and Raman spectra revealed their structure. It was found that SiC can improve the mechanical performance of the PC thermoplastic. A 19.5% increase in the tensile strength was found for the 2 wt.% loading nanocomposite, while the 3 wt.% nanocomposite showed a 16% increase in the flexural strength and a 35.9% higher impact strength when compared to the unfilled PC. No processability issues were faced for the filler loadings that have been studied here. MDPI 2022-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9459990/ /pubmed/36080567 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14173492 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Petousis, Markos Vidakis, Nectarios Mountakis, Nikolaos Grammatikos, Sotirios Papadakis, Vassilis David, Constantine N. Moutsopoulou, Amalia Das, Subrata C. Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles as a Mechanical Boosting Agent in Material Extrusion 3D-Printed Polycarbonate |
title | Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles as a Mechanical Boosting Agent in Material Extrusion 3D-Printed Polycarbonate |
title_full | Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles as a Mechanical Boosting Agent in Material Extrusion 3D-Printed Polycarbonate |
title_fullStr | Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles as a Mechanical Boosting Agent in Material Extrusion 3D-Printed Polycarbonate |
title_full_unstemmed | Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles as a Mechanical Boosting Agent in Material Extrusion 3D-Printed Polycarbonate |
title_short | Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles as a Mechanical Boosting Agent in Material Extrusion 3D-Printed Polycarbonate |
title_sort | silicon carbide nanoparticles as a mechanical boosting agent in material extrusion 3d-printed polycarbonate |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9459990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36080567 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym14173492 |
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