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Thermal and mechanical properties of 3D printed boron nitride – ABS composites

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The current work investigates the thermal conductivity and mechanical properties of Boron Nitride (BN)-Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) composites prepared using both 3D printing and injection molding. The thermally conductive, yet electrically insulating composite material provides a unique combination of properties that make it desirable for heat dissipation and packaging applications in electronics. Materials were fabricated via melt mixing on a twin-screw compounder, then injection molded or extruded into filament for fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printing. Compositions of up to 35 wt.% BN in ABS were prepared, and the infill orientation of the 3D printed composites was varied to investigate the effect on properties. Injection molding produced a maximum in-plane conductivity of 1.45 W/m-K at 35 wt.% BN, whereas 3D printed samples of 35 wt.% BN showed a value of 0.93 W/m-K, over 5 times the conductivity of pure ABS. The resulting thermal conductivity is anisotropic; with the through-plane thermal conductivity lower by a factor of ~3 for injection molding and ~4 for 3D printing. Adding BN flakes caused a modest increase in the flexural modulus, but resulted in a large decrease in the flexural strength and impact toughness. It is shown that although injection molding produces parts with superior thermal and mechanical properties, BN shows much potential as a filler material for rapid prototyping of thermally conductive composites.

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The authors kindly thank 3M’s Advanced Materials Division for supplying the Boron Nitride flakes used in this work.

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    Tyler J. Quill, Matthew K. Smith, Tony Zhou, Joao Paulo Berenguer, Baratunde A. Cola & Kyriaki Kalaitzidou

  2. George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    Mohamed Gamal Shafik Baioumy, Baratunde A. Cola, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou & Thomas L. Bougher

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Quill, T.J., Smith, M.K., Zhou, T. et al. Thermal and mechanical properties of 3D printed boron nitride – ABS composites. Appl Compos Mater 25, 1205–1217 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-017-9661-1

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