Morphological, mechanical, magnetic, and thermal properties of 3D printed functional polymeric structures modified with Fe2O3 nanoparticles

The Fe2O3 nanoparticle structures, which have many application areas such as electronics, marine, and aviation, have been studying extensively due to the compliance between organic polymer and inorganic Fe2O3 nanoparticles. Nanocomposite structures are successfully produced in the desired complexity with the additive manufacturing method. In the current study, Fe2O3 nanoparticles were doped into the photocurable resin at different concentrations (pristine, 0.25%, 0.5%, and 1% in wt), and the prepared 3D polymer nanocomposite mixtures were printed via stereolithography method. To investigate the morphological, mechanical, magnetic, and thermal properties of the printed nanocomposite structures, scanning electron microscopy, hardness, vibrating sample magnetometer, thermogravimetric analysis, and differential scanning calorimeter analysis were performed, respectively. It was revealed that the Fe2O3 nanoparticles improved the thermal stability of the structures. Moreover, an increase in magnetic properties has been observed up to 459%.