ReviewPolymers2026
Sustainable Polymer Additive Manufacturing Across Scales: A Critical Review of Pallet-Scale Structural Opportunities and Membrane Feed Spacers.
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Additive manufacturing (AM) can support more sustainable polymer production, but the benefit is conditional on process energy, material chemistry, build yield, post-processing, service life, repair, and end-of-life recovery. This critical integrative review compares three polymer AM routes: stereolithography (SLA), digital light processing (DLP), and fused deposition modelling (FDM) through two deliberately contrasting application scales: pallet-scale load-bearing structures and membrane feed spacers. The review distinguishes direct application evidence from design opportunities inferred from adjacent AM literature. For pallet-scale structures, the literature currently supports large-format thermoplastic extrusion, zoned cellular architectures, modular repair, and controlled recycled feedstock as plausible translation routes, but direct peer-reviewed evidence for fully additively manufactured transportation pallets remains very limited. For membrane feed spacers, direct studies provide stronger quantitative evidence: published 3D-printed designs have reported approximately threefold pressure-drop reduction with doubled specific water flux, pressure-drop gradients as low as 0.091 bar m
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