Research on mechanical properties of ink‐jet, UV‐thermal dual‐cured 3D printing materials and a comparison of the properties of ink‐jet, LCD and UV‐thermal dual‐cured 3D printing materials.

In this work, ink‐jet 3D printing materials were developed and investigated. Additionally, a UV‐thermal dual‐curable prepolymer was synthesized and introduced into liquid crystal display (LCD) 3D printing material. Subsequently, a UV‐thermal dual‐cured 3D printing material was developed as well. The different light stabilizers, photoinitiator content and different thermal annealing time were studied to reveal these effects on the mechanical properties of the ink‐jet 3D printed samples. FTIR was used to analyze the deblocking effect of blocked isocyanate in the synthesized resin. The mechanical properties of the UV‐thermal dual‐cured materials at different thermal annealing time and different ratios of UV content to thermal content were discussed. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was utilized to reveal the microscopic morphology of UV‐thermal dual‐cured material before and after thermal annealing. Finally, the dissipated energies of different 3D printing materials were revealed to indicate the difference in internal structure between ink‐jet, LCD and UV‐thermal dual‐cured 3D printing materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]