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      Sustainable composite fused deposition modelling filament using post-consumer recycled polypropylene

      Pickering, Kim L.; Stoof, David
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       10.3390/jcs1020017
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      Pickering, K. L., & Stoof, D. (2017). Sustainable composite fused deposition modelling filament using post-consumer recycled polypropylene. Journal of Composites Science, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/jcs1020017
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13794
      Abstract
      Post-consumer recycled polypropylene (PP) with differing harakeke and hemp fibre contents was used to fabricate a range of 3D printing feedstock filaments. The most successful filaments in terms of tensile properties contained 30 wt % harakeke and had a tensile strength and Young’s modulus of 41 MPa and 3.8 GPa respectively. Comparing these results to those of post-consumer recycled PP filament, showed improvements in tensile strength and Young’s modulus of 77% and 275%. The composite that showed the least shrinkage consisted of 30 wt % harakeke with a shrinkage value of 0.34% corresponding to a net reduction of 84% relative to post-consumer PP.
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      2017
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      Journal Article
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      MDPI
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      © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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