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%A Ritzen, Linda
%A Montano, Vincenzo
%A Garcia, Santiago J.
%D 2021
%T Supplementary data to the paper: 3D Printing of a Self-Healing Thermo-plastic Polyurethane Through FDM: from Polymer Slab to Mechanical Assessment
%U https://data.4tu.nl/articles/dataset/Supplementary_data_to_the_paper_3D_Printing_of_a_Self-Healing_Thermo-plastic_Polyurethane_Through_FDM_from_Polymer_Slab_to_Mechanical_Assessment/13603775/1
%R 10.4121/13603775.v1
%K Self-healing
%K Polyurethanes
%K 3D printing
%K Cut test
%X <div>This dataset contains the data corresponding to the following publication:</div><div>Linda Ritzen, Vincenzo Montano and Santiago J. Garcia. 3D Printing of aSelf-Healing Thermo-plastic Polyurethane Through FDM: from Polymer Slab to Mechanical Assessment. Polymers 2021, 13, 305.https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13020305</div><div><br></div><div>Abstract:</div><div>The use of self-healing (SH) polymers to make 3D-printed polymeric parts
 offers the potential to increase the quality of 3D-printed parts and to
 increase their durability and damage tolerance due to their (on-demand)
 dynamic nature. Nevertheless, 3D-printing of such dynamic polymers is 
not a straightforward process due to their polymer architecture and 
rheological complexity and the limited quantities produced at lab-scale.
 This limits the exploration of the full potential of self-healing 
polymers. In this paper, we present the complete process for fused 
deposition modelling of a room temperature self-healing polyurethane. 
Starting from the synthesis and polymer slab manufacturing, we processed
 the polymer into a continuous filament and 3D printed parts. For the 
characterization of the 3D printed parts, we used a compression cut 
test, which proved useful when limited amount of material is available. 
The test was able to quasi-quantitatively assess both bulk and 3D 
printed samples and their self-healing behavior. The mechanical and 
healing behavior of the 3D printed self-healing polyurethane was highly 
similar to that of the bulk SH polymer. This indicates that the 
self-healing property of the polymer was retained even after multiple 
processing steps and printing. Compared to a commercial 3D-printing 
thermoplastic polyurethane, the self-healing polymer displayed a smaller
 mechanical dependency on the printing conditions with the added value 
of healing cuts at room temperature.</div><div><br></div><div>The dataset contains the following measurements:</div><div>- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) of SH-TPU.</div><div>- Filament thickness measurements of the filaments used for 3D printing.</div><div>- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) of SH-TPU in the pristine, filament and 3D printed condition.</div><div>- Force-displacement curves of the mechanical testing of SH-TPU and commercial TPU Ninjaflex.</div><div>- Rheology results (shear rate analysis and temperature sweep) of SH-TPU and commercial TPU Ninjaflex.</div><div>- Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) of SH-TPU in pristine and filament condition.</div><div><br></div><div>The experimental set-up used to obtain these data can be found in the article and has also been included in the .txt files in the folders of the measurements. <br></div>
%I 4TU.ResearchData