Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-g8jcs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T07:14:26.506Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Preparation of α-alumina powder and binder For 3D printer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2018

Ryohei Hamano  and
Toshiyuki Ikoma
Ryohei Hamano*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo152-8550, Japan
Toshiyuki Ikoma
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo152-8550, Japan
*
*(Email: [email protected])
Get access

Abstract

Alpha-alumina is a ceramic with excellent chemical stability, mechanical property, high melting point, and insulating property; however, it shows poor workability due to its low fracture toughness. There are a lot of molding processes for α-alumina, such as press molding and extrusion methods. 3D printing is rapidly growing technology to make complex and precious moldings. However, there are still only a few descriptions on 3D ink-jet powder laminating printings for α-alumina due to no self-hydration hardening property. To achieve α-alumina moldings with the 3D ink-jet printers, powder fluidity of α-alumina powders and binders for bonding the powders should be investigated. The powders mixed with α-alumina at 20, 3.4 and 0.4 μm in sizes were adjusted to improve powder fluidity and packing density. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) or polyallylamine (PAA) including other additives was used as an ink. The addition of PVA on the adjusted powders made no chemical interaction of powders and no retention of shapes, but that of PAA formed the printed moldings. The relative packing density and compressive strength of the printed moldings were 40 % and 8.2 kPa, which was clearly depended on the printed directions due to the nozzle structure of printer head. Sintering the moldings at 1500°C caused near-net zero shrinkage and improved the maximum compressive strength at 3.6 MPa.

Keywords

powderbondingblend
Type
Articles
Information
MRS Advances , Volume 3 , Issue 18: Processing and Manufacturing , 2018 , pp. 969 - 975
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2018 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Sachs, E., Cima, M., and Williams, P., J. Eng. Ind., 114, 481–488 (1992).Google Scholar
Wong, K. V. and Hernandez, A., ISRN Mech. Eng., 2012, 1–10 (2012).Google Scholar
Kalsoom, U., Nesterenko, P.N., and Paull, B., RSC Adv., 6, 60355–60371 (2016).Google Scholar
Kumar, S. and Kruth, J.P., Mater. Des., 31, 850–856 (2010).Google Scholar
Kruth, J.P., Froyen, L., Van Vaerenbergh, J., Mercelis, P., Rombouts, M., and Lauwers, B., J. Mater. Process. Technol., 149, 616–622 (2004).Google Scholar
Yurie, H., Ikeguchi, R., Aoyama, T., Kaizawa, Y., Tajino, J., Ito, A., Ohta, S., Oda, H., Takeuchi, H., Akieda, S., Tsuji, M., Nakayama, K., and Matsuda, S., PLoS One, 12, 1–16 (2017).Google Scholar
Markstedt, K., Mantas, A., Tournier, I., Martínez Ávila, H., Hägg, D., and Gatenholm, P., Biomacromolecules, 16, 1489–1496 (2015).Google Scholar
Igawa, K., J Artif Organs, 9, 234–240 (2006).Google Scholar
Leong, K.F., Cheah, C.M., and Chua, C.K., Biomaterials, 24, 2363–2378 (2003).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zhang, J., Zhao, S., Zhu, M., Zhu, Y., Zhang, Y., Liu, Z., and Zhang, C., J. Mater. Chem. B, 2, 7583–7595 (2014).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zhou, Z., Buchanan, F., Mitchell, C., and Dunne, N., Mater. Sci. Eng. C, 38, 1–10 (2014).Google Scholar
Winkel, A., Meszaros, R., Reinsch, S., Müller, R., Travitzky, N., Fey, T., Greil, P., and Wondraczek, L., J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 95, 3387–3393 (2012).Google Scholar
Christ, S., Schnabel, M., Vorndran, E., Groll, J., and Gbureck, U., Mater. Lett., 139, 165–168 (2015).Google Scholar
Melcher, R., Travitzky, N., Zollfrank, C., and Greil, P., J Mater Sci, 46, 1203–1210 (2011).Google Scholar
Melcher, R., Martins, S., Travitzky, N., and Greil, P., Mater. Lett., 60, 572–575 (2006).Google Scholar
Wang, J. and Shaw, L.L., J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 89, 3285–3289 (2006).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilkes, J., Hagedorn, Y., Meiners, W., and Wissenbach, K., Rapid Prototyp. J., 19, 51–57 (2013).Google Scholar
Maleksaeedi, S., Eng, H., Wiria, F.E., Ha, T.M.H., and He, Z., J. Mater. Process. Technol., 214, 1301–1306 (2014).Google Scholar
Liang, L., Wang, L., Nguyen, A. V., and Xie, G., Powder Technol., 309, 1–12 (2017).Google Scholar
Eugene, R., J Amer Ceram Soc, 26, 65–68 (1953).Google Scholar