So she put in the effort to make 3D-printed plastic look like distressed metal ... So she designed a demonstration cube covered with mechanical characteristics, and gave us this walkthrough ...

For example, I like the Prusa V2 LACK enclosure design and its 3D-printed parts, but the next time I build one I will use corrugated plastic panels instead of acrylic. In preparation for this ...

Using 3D printing, researchers have combined coffee grounds and mushroom spores to create a compostable plastic ...

Every year, some 5.6 million metric tons of plastic packaging winds up in household waste in Germany after being used just ...

"If this [waste-made plastic] can now be fed into a 3D printer, can you actually print a whole range of products?" she said. One such product already made are "clamps" — or blocks — used in ...

A standard 3-D printer layers plastic to create car parts ... a kind of polymer. The scaffold is covered with skin cells and cartilage cells, which grow and fill in the ear-shaped form.

The "coral defenders" are made of plastic called PHA. Similar to a potato starch, it naturally breaks down when exposed, ...