Characteristics of Composite Materials of the Type: TPU/PP/BaTiO3 Powder for 3D Printing Applications

Polymers (Basel). 2022 Dec 24;15(1):73. doi: 10.3390/polym15010073.

Abstract

Composite materials are materials with anisotropic properties that are created by combining several different components in a way that allows the best qualities of each component to be used. In this paper, raw materials were used to obtain composite materials of the type TPU/PP/BaTiO3 powder. The thermogravimetric analysis, dynamic differential calorimetry, and scanning electron microscopy were carried out. The preliminary tests for making specific filaments for 3D printing with a diameter of 1.75 mm were carried out on a laboratory extruder. The purpose of the experiment was to develop the optimal extrusion temperatures and the speed of drawing the filament to make filaments with rigorously constant dimensions, and the variation in diameter had a maximum of 10%.

Keywords: barium titanate; composite materials; the thermogravimetric analysis; thermoplastic polyurethanes.