TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kade, Juliane C.
A1  - Otto, Paul F.
A1  - Luxenhofer, Robert
A1  - Dalton, Paul D.
T1  - Melt electrowriting of poly(vinylidene difluoride) using a heated collector
T2  - Polymers for Advanced Technologies
N2  - Previous research on the melt electrowriting (MEW) of poly(vinylidene difluoride) (PVDF) resulted in electroactive fibers, however, printing more than five layers is challenging. Here, we investigate the influence of a heated collector to adjust the solidification rate of the PVDF jet so that it adheres sufficiently to each layer. A collector temperature of 110°C is required to improve fiber processing, resulting in a total of 20 fiber layers. For higher temperatures and higher layers, an interesting phenomenon occurred, where the intersection points of the fibers coalesced into periodic spheres of diameter 206 ± 52 μm (26G, 150°C collector temperature, 2000 mm/min, 10 layers in x- and y-direction).The heated collector is an important component of a MEW printer that allows polymers with a high melting point to be processable with increased layers.
KW  - additive manufacturing
KW  - polymer processing
KW  - melt electrowriting
KW  - electroactive
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31849
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-318493
SN  - 1042-7147
VL  - 32
IS  - 12
SP  - 4951
EP  - 4955
ER  -