ArticlePolymers2021
Evaluation of the Technical Viability of Distributed Mechanical Recycling of PLA 3D Printing Wastes.
Article in Polymers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed.
- Recycling of Poly(lactic acid): From Molecular Degradation to Circular End-of-Life Strategies.Polymers · 2026Review
- Flexible Compostable Composite Films Based on Plasticized Reprocessed PLA and Reinforced with Rice Husk and Rice Husk Biochar.Polymers · 2026Article
- 3D-Printed Plantar Orthoses and the Conditional Viability of Recycled PLA.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Article
- Effect of Continuous Mixer Design and Parameters on the Degradation of Polylactic Acid.Polymers · 2025Article
- Anaerobic Biodegradation of Polylactic Acid-Based Items: A Specific Focus on Disposable Tableware Products.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Mechanical Property Characterization of Virgin and Recycled PLA Blends in Single-Screw Filament Extrusion for 3D Printing.Polymers · 2024Article
- Article
- Article
- The Quest for the Holy Grail Of 3D Printing: A Critical Review of Recycling in Polymer Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing.Polymers · 2024Review
- Exploring the Potential of Recycled Polymers for 3D Printing Applications: A Review.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Review
- The Upper Limb Orthosis in the Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients: The Role of 3D Printing.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Advanced Composite Materials Utilized in FDM/FFF 3D Printing Manufacturing Processes: The Case of Filled Filaments.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Article
- Circular Economy Electrochemistry: Recycling Old Mixed Material Additively Manufactured Sensors into New Electroanalytical Sensing Platforms.ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering · 2023Article
- Article
- Achieving effective interlayer bonding of PLA parts during the material extrusion process with enhanced mechanical properties.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Review
- Accuracy of Dental Models Fabricated Using Recycled Poly-Lactic Acid.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors.
Funding
Abstract
3D printing PLA wastes were recovered from a well-known reference grade and from different sources. The recovered wastes were subjected to an energic washing step and then reprocessed into films by melt-extrusion, followed by compression molding to simulate the industrial processing conditions. The obtained materials were characterized and the optical, structural, thermal and crystallization behavior are reported. The mechanical recycling process leads to an increase of the crystallinity and a decrease of the intrinsic viscosity of the formulations, particularly in the sample based on blends of different 3D-PLA wastes. Moreover, the obtained films were disintegrated under composting conditions in less than one month and it was observed that recycled materials degrade somewhat faster than the starting 3D-PLA filament, as a consequence of the presence of shorter polymer chains. Finally, to increase the molecular weight of the recycled materials, the 3D-PLA wastes were submitted to a solid-state polymerization process at 110, 120, and 130 °C, observing that the recycled 3D-wastes materials based on a well-known reference grade experiences an improvement of the intrinsic viscosity, while that coming from different sources showed no significant changes. Thus, the results show that 3D printing PLA products provides an ideal environment for the implementation of distributed recycling program, in which wastes coming from well-known PLA grades can successfully be processed in films with good overall performance.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.