Polytechnic students create novel twill-based filament for 3-D printers
Submitted on 26 May 2022 - 5:45pm
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José Ayala Gordián
(Teresa Canino Rivera)
A group of chemical engineering students at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico seeks to revolutionize the emerging field of 3D printing by developing a novel sargassum-based filament, which would not only allow the manufacture of all kinds of products for consumers, but would also give a use to the tons of this seaweed that congests the coasts of the island and that, in the future, could create a new economic sector and jobs.
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