A group of scientists in Japan has created a new form of plastic that combines the strength required for everyday use with ...

Plastics are durable and strong, which is great while they’re being used but frustrating when they end up in the environment.

The fact that it's dissolvable means that ... a flexible substrate is a polyimide material with the trade name of Kapton. (Polyimide is a high performance plastic in the polymer family that ...

There were a few problems with dissolvable support material in the past. PVA is water soluble, but it doesn’t print well. HIPS can be dissolved in limonene, but the resulting goo is toxic.

LulzBot’s FlexyDually extruder makes the argument for combining flexible and rigid materials for some metamaterial weirdness. Dissolvable filaments allow any dual-extruder printer to create any ...