Ion beam induced secondary electron tomography of acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate/polycarbonate polymer blends for fused filament fabrication and injection moulding.

ABSTRACT: Polymer blending is an interesting strategy to broaden the combination of properties available for a variety of applications. To understand the behaviour of the new materials obtained as well as the influence of the fabrication parameters used, methods to analyse the distribution of polymers in the blend with resolution below the micrometer are required. In this work, we demonstrate the capability of focused ion beam (FIB) tomography to provide 3D information of the polymer distribution in objects obtained by blending acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate (ASA) with polycarbonate (PC) (50 wt%), fabricated by Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) and by Injection Moulding (IM). For this, ion beam induced secondary electron (iSE) images show the capability to distinguish unequivocally the two phases in

SUBMITTER: Hernandez-Saz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11779974 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature