Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of Additively Manufactured Polyurethane (PU)/Halloysite Nanotube (HNT) Nanocomposites

This paper investigates the impact of halloysite nanotube (HNT) content on mechanical and shape memory properties of additively manufactured polyurethane (PU)/HNT nanocomposites. The inclusion of 8 wt% HNTs increases their tensile strength by 30.4% when compared with that of virgin PU at 44.75 MPa....

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Main Authors: Nugroho, Wendy Triadji, Dong, Yu, Pramanik, Alokesh
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/14/16/1373
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95762
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author Nugroho, Wendy Triadji
Dong, Yu
Pramanik, Alokesh
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Dong, Yu
Pramanik, Alokesh
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description This paper investigates the impact of halloysite nanotube (HNT) content on mechanical and shape memory properties of additively manufactured polyurethane (PU)/HNT nanocomposites. The inclusion of 8 wt% HNTs increases their tensile strength by 30.4% when compared with that of virgin PU at 44.75 MPa. Furthermore, consistently significant increases in tensile modulus, compressive strength and modulus, as well as specific energy absorption are also manifested by 47.2%, 34.0%, 125% and 72.7% relative to neat PU at 2.29 GPa, 3.88 MPa, 0.28 GPa and 0.44 kJ/kg respectively. However, increasing HNT content reduces lateral strain due to the restricted mobility of polymeric chains, leading to a decrease in negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR). As such, shape recovery ratio and time of PU/HNT nanocomposites are reduced by 9 and 45% with the inclusion of 10 wt% HNTs despite an increasing shape fixity ratio up to 12% relative to those of neat PU.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-957622024-10-15T03:00:20Z Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of Additively Manufactured Polyurethane (PU)/Halloysite Nanotube (HNT) Nanocomposites Nugroho, Wendy Triadji Dong, Yu Pramanik, Alokesh polyurethane (PU) halloysite nanotube (HNT) additive manufacturing mechanical property shape memory property This paper investigates the impact of halloysite nanotube (HNT) content on mechanical and shape memory properties of additively manufactured polyurethane (PU)/HNT nanocomposites. The inclusion of 8 wt% HNTs increases their tensile strength by 30.4% when compared with that of virgin PU at 44.75 MPa. Furthermore, consistently significant increases in tensile modulus, compressive strength and modulus, as well as specific energy absorption are also manifested by 47.2%, 34.0%, 125% and 72.7% relative to neat PU at 2.29 GPa, 3.88 MPa, 0.28 GPa and 0.44 kJ/kg respectively. However, increasing HNT content reduces lateral strain due to the restricted mobility of polymeric chains, leading to a decrease in negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR). As such, shape recovery ratio and time of PU/HNT nanocomposites are reduced by 9 and 45% with the inclusion of 10 wt% HNTs despite an increasing shape fixity ratio up to 12% relative to those of neat PU. 2024 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95762 10.3390/nano14161373 English https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/14/16/1373 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ MDPI AG fulltext
spellingShingle polyurethane (PU)
halloysite nanotube (HNT)
additive manufacturing
mechanical property
shape memory property
Nugroho, Wendy Triadji
Dong, Yu
Pramanik, Alokesh
Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of Additively Manufactured Polyurethane (PU)/Halloysite Nanotube (HNT) Nanocomposites
title Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of Additively Manufactured Polyurethane (PU)/Halloysite Nanotube (HNT) Nanocomposites
title_full Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of Additively Manufactured Polyurethane (PU)/Halloysite Nanotube (HNT) Nanocomposites
title_fullStr Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of Additively Manufactured Polyurethane (PU)/Halloysite Nanotube (HNT) Nanocomposites
title_full_unstemmed Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of Additively Manufactured Polyurethane (PU)/Halloysite Nanotube (HNT) Nanocomposites
title_short Mechanical and Shape Memory Properties of Additively Manufactured Polyurethane (PU)/Halloysite Nanotube (HNT) Nanocomposites
title_sort mechanical and shape memory properties of additively manufactured polyurethane (pu)/halloysite nanotube (hnt) nanocomposites
topic polyurethane (PU)
halloysite nanotube (HNT)
additive manufacturing
mechanical property
shape memory property
url https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/14/16/1373
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/95762