Shi Shaohong, Chen Yinghong, Jing Jingjing, Yang Lu
State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Polymer Research Institute of Sichuan University Chengdu 610065 China
RSC Adv. 2019 Sep 23;9(51):29980-29986. doi: 10.1039/c9ra05684j. eCollection 2019 Sep 18.
In this paper, a local enrichment strategy was adopted to prepare carbon nanotube (CNT) enriched polylactic acid (PLA) composite filaments, which were used to fabricate the corresponding conductive 3D-printed parts by fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology. Combined with computer simulation, the carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were found to be successfully kept and supported on the surface of filaments after 3D-printing. With this strategy, the prepared 3D-printed parts showed a remarkably enhanced electrical conductivity, which was approximately eight orders of magnitude higher than that of the conventional 3D-printed parts at the same loading of CNTs. This encouraging result provided a new method for fabricating the high-performance parts through FDM printing, and also opened up new routes for 3D-printing technologies to prepare other advanced binary or multicomponent polymer composites.
在本文中,采用局部富集策略制备了碳纳米管(CNT)增强聚乳酸(PLA)复合长丝,通过熔融沉积建模(FDM)技术将其用于制造相应的导电3D打印部件。结合计算机模拟发现,3D打印后碳纳米管(CNTs)成功地保留并支撑在长丝表面。通过该策略,制备的3D打印部件显示出显著增强的导电性,在相同碳纳米管负载量下,其导电性比传统3D打印部件高出约八个数量级。这一令人鼓舞的结果为通过FDM打印制造高性能部件提供了一种新方法,也为3D打印技术制备其他先进的二元或多组分聚合物复合材料开辟了新途径。