5-furandicarboxylate (PEF) tagged posts

Three-Dimensional Printing with Biomass-Derived PEF for Carbon-Neutral Manufacturing. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2017; DOI: 10.1002/anie.201708528

3D printing with a biobased polymer for CO2-neutral manufacturing. In our modern world, eliminating plastics is inconceivable. Unfortunately, they do have disadvantages, including the formation of CO(2) in both production and combustion, depletion of fossil feedstocks, and growth of landfills. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Russian researchers introduce a new way forward, a polymer made entirely from biomass that can easily and inexpensively be used in 3D printing. Objects produced in this way are of high quality, easily recyclable, and highly solvent-resistant.

Conventional “subtractive” processes involve cutting, sawing, turni...