Avaliação da dextrina como ligante das partículas de alumina para impressão 3D

Abstract

The development of technologies have provided the emergence of new forms for the processing of materials such as additive manufacturing techniques. For use of different materials in this type of processing, it is necessary to study and improvement of materials and technology to be employed. Additive manufacturing technology for polymeric materials is widespread, but there is still a gap in the development of this technique for ceramic materials. In the case of ceramic materials, surface modification of the particles for use in the indirect three-dimensional printing technique (3DP) is required, which is one of additive manufacturing technologies. This paper aims to the preparation and characterization of alumina powder using dextrin as a binder for three-dimensional indirect printing technique. The stability of alumina suspensions was evaluated and dextrin and the dextrin adsorption on alumina surface using the technique of UV-visible spectroscopy. The research assessed apparent density of the green bodies and sintered density by using the immersion method of mercury and Archimedean density. Analysis was used for scanning electron microscopy to evaluate the morphology of the pre-sintered and sintered bodies. Through the suspensions stability results the most suitable pH for the preparation of the suspensions is the pH 6, as it was decided to perform the slurry preparation in pH. With a determination the amount of dextrin adsorbed on the surface of the alumina there was the formation of a monolayer of dextrin to the initial concentration of 1.5% added dextrin, and at higher concentrations was adsorbed multilayer formation. With a determination the apparent densities, it was found that the batch containing 30 to 40% solids and 1% concentrations for dextrin and 2.5 had a better final density. In scanning electron microscopy, we observed the presence of pores and bubbles into the final density of the samples. The use of dextrin as a binder of particulate aluminum has a potential to be explored for 3D printing. Perform an initial control of the added dextrin, optimization leads to a final density of samples.