Researchers have developed an enzyme and then integrated it into PLA so that it helps degrade the plastic and withstand the high temperatures of enzymatic plastic manufacturing. Published in ...

Otherwise, molten plastic prefers to spill out the back instead ... and A “glue stick” of the correct size and shape made from PLA instead of hot glue After a bit of research, I purchased ...

As it turns out, the additives that create these changes in coloring and transparency also affect the base properties of the polymer, whether it’s PLA, PETG, or another material. This is where a ...

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University in collaboration with colleagues have engineered 3D-printed biodegradable scaffolds with shape memory effect based on poly(lactic acid) (PLA) doped with ...

The cardboard completely decomposes in three to six weeks, compared to three months for untreated cardboard and hundreds of years for cardboard lined with a kind of plastic known as PLA.