Additive manufacturing of CNTs/PLA composites and the correlation between microstructure and functional properties
Xing Zhou, Jingrui Deng, Changqing Fang, Wanqing Lei, Yonghua Song, Zisen Zhang, Zhigang Huang, Yan Li
Table 2 Summary of DSC heating curves of PLA and CNTs/PLA composites before and after 3D printing.
Samples Heating process
aTg (°C) bTc (°C) cΔHc (J/g) Tm (°C) dΔHm (J/g) Xc (%)
T1 T2 T3 T4 ΔCp (J g-1 K-1) Tc1 Tc2
PLA 67.5 69.1 70.7 70.9 0.308 / / / 171.5 34.4 /
CNTs/PLA-1 58.8 59.7 60.4 60.5 0.912 89.8 119.2 40.79 171.0 38.27 2.7
CNTs/PLA-2 55.7 58.1 58.4 60.2 0.572 107.4 126.7 23.31 144.3 21.8 1.6
CNTs/PLA-3 56.7 59.7 60.0 62.0 0.564 101.9 115.3 37.68 159.9 34.35 3.7