Partial Biodegradable Blend with High Stability against Biodegradation for Fused Deposition Modeling.

ABSTRACT: This research presents a partial biodegradable polymeric blend aimed for large-scale fused deposition modeling (FDM). The literature reports partial biodegradable blends with high contents of fossil fuel-based polymers (>20%) that make them unfriendly to the ecosystem. Furthermore, the reported polymer systems neither present good mechanical strength nor have been investigated in vulnerable environments that results in biodegradation. This research, as a continuity of previous work, presents the stability against biodegradability of a partial biodegradable blend prepared with polylactic acid (PLA) and polypropylene (PP). The blend is designed with intended excess physical interlocking and sufficient chemical grafting, which has only been investigated for thermal and hydrolytic degradation

SUBMITTER: Harris M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9027655 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature