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UV-Light Curing of 3D Printing Inks from Vegetable Oils for Stereolithography

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POLYMERS
卷 13, 期 8, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym13081195

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biopolymers; photopolymerization; kinetics; UV-light curing inks; additive manufacturing; stereolithography

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  1. M-era.net 2017 project 3D Printable Innovative Biobased Materials for Wood Mimics, 3DPrintInn (State Education Development Agency Republic of Latvia (VIAA)) [1.1.1.5/ERANET/18/05, INTER/MERA/17/11757316]

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In order to meet the demand for sustainability, some vegetable oils can be modified for use in UV-assisted additive manufacturing technologies. Optimizing formulation conditions can significantly improve the photopolymerization performance and thermal-mechanical properties of the resin.
Typical resins for UV-assisted additive manufacturing (AM) are prepared from petroleum-based materials and therefore do not contribute to the growing AM industry trend of converting to sustainable bio-based materials. To satisfy society and industry's demand for sustainability, renewable feedstocks must be explored; unfortunately, there are not many options that are applicable to photopolymerization. Nevertheless, some vegetable oils can be modified to be suitable for UV-assisted AM technologies. In this work, extended study, through FTIR and photorheology measurements, of the UV-curing of epoxidized acrylate from soybean oil (AESO)-based formulations has been performed to better understand the photopolymerization process. The study demonstrates that the addition of appropriate functional comonomers like trimethylolpropane triacrylate (TMPTA) and the adjusting of the concentration of photoinitiator from 1% to 7% decrease the needed UV-irradiation time by up to 25%. Under optimized conditions, the optimal curing time was about 4 s, leading to a double bond conversion rate (DBC%) up to 80% and higher crosslinking density determined by the Flory-Rehner empirical approach. Thermal and mechanical properties were also investigated via TGA and DMA measurements that showed significant improvements of mechanical performances for all formulations. The properties were improved further upon the addition of the reactive diluents. After the thorough investigations, the prepared vegetable oil-based resin ink formulations containing reactive diluents were deemed suitable inks for UV-assisted AM, giving their appropriate viscosity. The validation was done by printing different objects with complex structures using a laser based stereolithography apparatus (SLA) printer.

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