3D-POWDER SLS PP50-80 is a specifically designed narrow medium particle size Polypropylene PP based powder for SLS printing of high accuracy and resolution PP printed parts
3D-POWDER SLS PP50-80 has these features and benefits:
- ideal SLS powder for direct SLS printing of high quality PP parts
- ideal cobinder in combination with 3Dresyns powder binders for SLS Cold Metal, Ceramic & Exotic Powder Fusion
- natural white translucent thermoplastic SLS spherical powder with good fatigue resistance, outstanding physical, chemical, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties
- printable by most plastic / polymer powder SLS printers
- excellent flow and levelling
- typical narrow particle size distribution in microns (not to be considered a specification):
- D100: 90 (100% of particles have less than 90 microns)
- D90: 80 (90% of particles have less than 80 microns)
- D50: 65 (50% of particles have less than 65 microns)
- D10: 50 (10% of particles have less than 50 microns)
- D1: 2 (1% of particles have less than 2 microns)
- high accuracy and resolution up to 50-100 microns of final products (depending on laser spot size and layer thickness)
- choose the white color version when used with high power lasers or the blue version with low power lasers for optimum Visible & IR laser absorption (then blue color dissapears when exposed to heat and light)
Typical Properties*:
- Shore hardness D70
- density: 0.90 g/cm³
- water absorption after 24 hours: 0.03%
- tensile strength: <30 MPa
- tensile modulus: 1200-1400 MPa
- elongation at break: <25 %
- Izod impact Strength Notched: 60 J/m
- flexural Strength: <20 MPa
- Vicat softening temperature: 140-150ºC
- Coefficient of Friction COF: 0.30%
- Heat Deflection Temperature HDT at 0.45MPa: >120ºC
- Heat Deflection Temperature HDT at 1.8MPa: >70ºC
- service temperature from -5ºC up to 130ºC (continuous)
Recommendations for SLS printing of PP:
- recommended plastic or polymer powder SLS printers: SLS printer compatibility, any open mode plastic/ polymer powder SLS printer can be used
- recommended printing, debinding and sintering process: use the std printing parameters of your equivalent polymer powder and follow 3Dresyns IFU for SLS printing
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reference printing settings*: energy density 2-40 J/cm2. Example: scan velocity of 1500-200 mm/s with 15-30 W CO2 laser (10.6 µm laser wavelength). Bed temperature around 90-130ºC (layer thickness <200 microns)
Recommendations for Cold Fusion SLS printing of Metals, Ceramics, and exotic powders by Cold Metal Fusion (CMF) , Cold Ceramic Fusion (CCF), Cold Polymer Fusion (CPF), and Cold Exotic Powder Materials Fusion:
- Add 10% of 3D-POWDER SLS PP50-80 instead of Nylon 12 for improved and faster debinding. For more info read:
*Note: the reported properties may vary depending of part design and manufacturing practices. It is the manufacturer’s responsibility to adjust the printing parameters and validate the suitability of the printed parts for the intended use. 3Dresyns. makes no guarantee of properties, expressed or implied, regarding the accuracy of these results to be obtained from the use thereof. Standards: Shore hardness (ISO868), density (ISO 1183), water Absorption after 24 hours (ISO 62), tensile strength (ISO 527-2), tensile modulus (ISO 527-2), elongation at break (ISO 527-2), Izod impact Strength Notched (ASTM D256 & ISO 180), flexural strength (ISO 178), flexural modulus (ISO 178), Vicat softening temperature (ISO 306/B50), melting temperature (ISO 11357), Coefficient of Friction COF-Static (ISO 8295), Heat Deflection Temperature HDT (ISO 75)