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Partial Biodegradable Blend with High Stability against Biodegradation for Fused Deposition Modeling.


ABSTRACT: This research presents a partial biodegradable polymeric blend aimed for large-scale fused deposition modeling (FDM). The literature reports partial biodegradable blends with high contents of fossil fuel-based polymers (>20%) that make them unfriendly to the ecosystem. Furthermore, the reported polymer systems neither present good mechanical strength nor have been investigated in vulnerable environments that results in biodegradation. This research, as a continuity of previous work, presents the stability against biodegradability of a partial biodegradable blend prepared with polylactic acid (PLA) and polypropylene (PP). The blend is designed with intended excess physical interlocking and sufficient chemical grafting, which has only been investigated for thermal and hydrolytic degradation before by the same authors. The research presents, for the first time, ANOVA analysis for the statistical evaluation of endurance against biodegradability. The statistical results are complemented with thermochemical and visual analysis. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) determines the signs of intermolecular interactions that are further confirmed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The thermochemical interactions observed in FTIR and DSC are validated with thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is also used as a visual technique to affirm the physical interlocking. It is concluded that the blend exhibits high stability against soil biodegradation in terms of high mechanical strength and high mass retention percentage.

SUBMITTER: Harris M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9027655 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Partial Biodegradable Blend with High Stability against Biodegradation for Fused Deposition Modeling.

Harris Muhammad M   Mohsin Hammad H   Potgieter Johan J   Ishfaq Kashif K   Archer Richard R   Chen Qun Q   De Silva Karnika K   Guen Marie-Joo Le ML   Wilson Russell R   Arif Khalid Mahmood KM  

Polymers 20220411 8


This research presents a partial biodegradable polymeric blend aimed for large-scale fused deposition modeling (FDM). The literature reports partial biodegradable blends with high contents of fossil fuel-based polymers (>20%) that make them unfriendly to the ecosystem. Furthermore, the reported polymer systems neither present good mechanical strength nor have been investigated in vulnerable environments that results in biodegradation. This research, as a continuity of previous work, presents the  ...[more]

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