Abstract
Polylactic acid (PLA)/poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) blends have exhibited good shape memory properties and degradable characteristics in various 4D printing fields such as biomedicine, flexible electronics, and soft robotics, where the service temperature fluctuates easily by environment temperature and polymer characteristics. In this work, printed PLA/PCL 4D samples with different infill densities were prepared by material extrusion printing of pre-extruded filaments and characterized under different temperatures. The results show that the microstructures of printed samples are not influenced by printing process and have similar unique orientation as that of filaments. The thermal properties are stable and show obvious phase transition temperatures, while the mechanical properties decrease slightly in low temperature region and then decrease rapidly when temperature is over 60 °C. The increase in infill density can further improve the storage modulus more than 40% and have no significant influence on the thermal properties. The printed samples also exhibit good shape memory performances with fast recovery speeds less than 22 s. Furthermore, a two-step model is provided to predict the effective modulus of printed PLA/PCL samples and agrees well with experimental data. The results prove that temperature and infill density have different influences on the thermal, mechanical and shape memory properties of PLA/PCL blends.
Funder
Joint Fund of Ministry of Education
Subject
General Materials Science
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