Investigation of the Effects of Injection Molding Processing Parameters on Conductive Polymeric Composites for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Effectiveness

摘要

Polycarbonate (PC) composites filled with conductive nickel-coated carbon fibers (NCFs) were injection-molded under different injection process conditions. They were then used to investigate the influence of the injection processing parameters of melt temperature, mold temperature, injection velocity and packing pressure on the electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding effectiveness (SE). In order to study the effect of the molding variables using the minimum number of experiments, the Taguchi method was employed. The aim of the Taguchi method was to optimize the injection processing parameters for better EMI shielding of the conductive polycarbonate composites. It is found out that the packing pressure and mold temperature affect the EMI shielding efficiency most significantly.