Advances in nanocomposite material for Fused Filament Fabrication

ABSTRACT

Additive manufacturing (AM) is fast becoming the most flexible technique for creating different products, including prototypes and end-use products. Fused filament fabrication (FFF) is the most frequently employed AM technique which is primarily due to the exploration of new materials. Several research work have been done to investigate the development of new composite filaments with improved or distinct properties than the parent thermoplastics by incorporating various usable fillers. This research does a detailed evaluation of the existing literature on FFF nanocomposites and mainly intended for providing a comprehensive review on nanocomposite material processing using FFF processes.

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KEYWORDS:

• Additive manufacturing (AM)
• Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)
• nanofiller
• material properties
• optically transparent nanocomposites
• shape memory effects

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) – DST, New Delhi India under its Start-up Research Grant (SRG) scheme [Grant number: SRG/2019/000943].

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board [SRG/2019/000943].

Notes on contributors

Mohammad Taufik

Abhishek Patel is a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. He is working in the area of additive manufacturing. His research interests include additive manufacturing and nanocomposite.

Mohammad Taufik is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department in Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Madhya Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from the PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design, and Manufacturing, Jabalpur. He is a project investigator for an ongoing research project, “development of a pellet and filament form integrated multi-material co-extruder system for improved additive manufacturing process” sponsored by the science and engineering research board (SERB) of DST under start-up research grant (SRG) scheme also principal investigator on project development of computational and experimental strategies to improve part surface quality in entry-level Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) Process sponsored by MANIT Bhopal under seed money grant scheme. Earlier, he has served as principal investigator on the development of 3D printed arm or elbow operated water tap handles to make the water tap handles safer in common washrooms. His research interests include CAD, 3D Printing, CAE, rapid prototyping, CNC Machining, additive manufacturing, and reverse engineering.