Thermoplastic Resin

Elium, the first welding. The composite parts made from Elium resin can be developed and recycled by thermoplastic resin is designed for the manufacturing composite material parts with certain mechanical properties similar to that of thermosetting. The uniqueness of Elium is it behaves as a thermoplastic which is designed for thermoforming, recycling and depolymerization. The principle involved is coarsely crushing Elium resin and then heat depolarized as it can be recovered and purified into a resin with the similar properties as that of the virgin resin. Elium resin is a tremendous asset, especially in the manufacturing of wind turbines where non- recyclable epoxy resin is used in the manufacturing of blades

Elium, the first welding. The composite parts made from Elium resin can be developed and recycled by thermoplastic resin is designed for the manufacturing composite material parts with certain mechanical properties similar to that of thermosetting. The uniqueness of Elium is it behaves as a thermoplastic which is designed for thermoforming, recycling and depolymerization. The principle involved is coarsely crushing Elium resin and then heat depolarized as it can be recovered and purified into a resin with the similar properties as that of the virgin resin. Elium resin is a tremendous asset, especially in the manufacturing of wind turbines where nonrecyclable epoxy resin is used in the manufacturing of blades.

Although three-dimensional (3D) thermoplastic elastomer printing has been studied, the unsatisfactory mechanical properties of 3D-printed elastomers, especially their substandard wear characteristics, make it difficult to use them in industrial products or processes. In this study, thermoplastic elastomer nanocomposites with improved wear properties were fabricated using thermoplastic polyether elastomer (TPEE), with surfacemodified carbon black (CB), or electrochemically exfoliated graphene through multiple extrusion processes. The surface-modified CB/TPEE composite showed about four times more wear resistance and 26% improvement in tensile strength as compared to bare TPEE resin. The graphene/TPEE composite with only 1 wt% graphene exhibited an elevenfold increase in wear resistance and 43% improvement in the tensile strength owing to the high dispersibility and lubricating effect of the two-dimensional graphene filler. Graphene/TPEE composites were extruded into filaments for 3D printing. Three-dimensional printed products made from the nanocomposites have much higher wear resistance than 3D products of bare TPEE resin, demonstrating that graphene and TPEE nanocomposites are well suited for manufacturing a wide variety of complex electronic and mechanical components with excellent wear characteristics.