Substrate Coating Produced via Additive Manufacturing with Conducting Polymers: Assessment in The Development of Electrodes

The production of conductive and organic devices from a 3D printer represents promising strategy for several areas. In particular, the synthesis polypyrrole-coated acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) composites can be considered an important step to produce supports printing. Herein, it is reported ABS samples through additive manufacturing process (3D printing) accordingly Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) method. hydrophilic behavior was controlled by surface treatment using air plasma following coating with polypyrrole (PPy) via in situ polymerization, two different oxidants: ferric chloride (FeCl3.6H2O) ammonium persulfate (APS). chemical, optical, surface, electrical properties these materials were characterized Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), contact angle measurements, cyclic voltammetry, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), 4-probe measurement, mechanical tensile testing. ABS/PPy (FeCl3) composite exhibited low resistance better performance applications that require electrodes good conductance level.