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Additive manufacturing has surged in popularity as a route to designing and preparing functional parts. Depending on the parts function, certain attributes such as high mechanical performances may be desired. We develop a route for improving the mechanical properties of polymer devices, fabricated through additive manufacturing by combining electrospinning and stereo-lithography into one automated process. This process utilises the impressive mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes by encapsulating and aligning them in electrospun fibres. Composite fibres will be incorporated into polymer resins prepared with stereo-lithography, thereby providing resins that benefit from the composite fibres properties, enhancing their overall mechanical properties.
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A complete working system has been developed to automatically process the nanocomposite fibres and encase them in an epoxy resin to retain the specified orientation to enhance the mechanical properties of the resin.
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations, as Professor Geoffrey Mitchell and Dr Saeed Mohan. Additive manufacturing has surged in popularity as a route to designing and preparing functional parts. Depending on the parts function, certain attributes such as high mechanical performances may be desired
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This page is a summary of: Direct Digital Manufacturing of Nanocomposites, Applied Mechanics and Materials, April 2019, Trans Tech Publications,
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.890.92.
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