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Fabrication and Characterization of Flexible Medical-Grade TPU Filament for Fused Deposition Modeling 3DP Technology
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The possibility of using additive manufacturing (AM) in the medicine area has created new opportunities in health care. This has contributed to a sharp increase in demand for 3D printers, their systems and materials that are adapted to strict medical requirements. We described herein a medical-grade thermoplastic polyurethane (S-TPU) which was developed and then formed into a filament for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printers during a melt-extrusion process. S-TPU consisting of aliphatic hexamethylene 1,6-diisocyanate (HDI), amorphous ,!-dihydroxy(ethylene-butylene adipate) (PEBA) and 1,4 butandiol (BDO) as a chain extender, was synthesized without the use of a catalyst. The filament (F-TPU) properties were characterized by rheological, mechanical, physico-chemical and in vitro biological properties. The tests showed biocompatibility of the obtained filament as well as revealed no significant effect of the filament formation process on its properties. This study may contribute to expanding the range of medical-grade flexible filaments for standard low-budget FDM printers.
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- Category:
- Articles
- Type:
- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
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Polymers
no. 10,
edition 12,
pages 1304 - 1323,
ISSN: 2073-4360 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Bibliographic description:
- Haryńska A., Gubańska I., Kucińska-Lipka J., Janik H.: Fabrication and Characterization of Flexible Medical-Grade TPU Filament for Fused Deposition Modeling 3DP Technology// Polymers. -Vol. 10, iss. 12 (2018), s.1304-1323
- DOI:
- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.3390/polym10121304
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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