Development of SiC/PVB Composite Powders for Selective Laser Sintering Additive Manufacturing of SiC

Peng Zhou; Huilin Qi; Zhenye Zhu; Huang Qin; Hui Li; Chenglin Chu; Ming Yan

doi:10.3390/ma11102012

Materials (Oct 2018)

Development of SiC/PVB Composite Powders for Selective Laser Sintering Additive Manufacturing of SiC

Peng Zhou,
Huilin Qi,
Zhenye Zhu,
Huang Qin,
Hui Li,
Chenglin Chu,
Ming Yan

Affiliations

Peng Zhou: Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Shenzhen Key Lab for Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materialas, Southern University of Science and Technology, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518055, China
Huilin Qi: Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Shenzhen Key Lab for Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materialas, Southern University of Science and Technology, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518055, China
Zhenye Zhu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518000, China
Huang Qin: Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Shenzhen Key Lab for Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materialas, Southern University of Science and Technology, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518055, China
Hui Li: Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Shenzhen Key Lab for Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materialas, Southern University of Science and Technology, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518055, China
Chenglin Chu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Ming Yan: Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Shenzhen Key Lab for Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materialas, Southern University of Science and Technology, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518055, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11102012
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 10
p. 2012

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Subsphaeroidal SiC/polymer composite granules with good flowability for additive manufacturing/3D printing of SiC were prepared by ball milling with surface modification using polyvinyl butyral (PVB). PVB adheres to the particle surface of SiC to form a crosslinked network structure and keeps them combined with each other into light aggregates. The effects of PVB on the shape, size, phase composition, distribution and flowability of the polymer-ceramic composite powder were investigated in detail. Results show that the composite powder material has good laser absorptivity at wavelengths of lower than 500 nm.

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ISSN: 1996-1944 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering; Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); Science: Natural history (General): Microscopy; Science: Physics: Descriptive and experimental mechanics
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