{"id":204419,"date":"2025-01-24T03:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/protein-denaturation-provides-a-path-toward-more-sustainable-3d-printing-of-photoresins"},"modified":"2025-01-24T03:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:47:30","slug":"protein-denaturation-provides-a-path-toward-more-sustainable-3d-printing-of-photoresins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/protein-denaturation-provides-a-path-toward-more-sustainable-3d-printing-of-photoresins","title":{"rendered":"Protein denaturation provides a path toward more sustainable 3D printing of photoresins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/protein-denaturation-provides-a-path-toward-more-sustainable-3d-printing-of-photoresins3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The vast majority of photoresins for 3D printing (also referred to as additive manufacturing or AM) and related technologies are toxic, non-biodegradable, and sourced from unsustainable feedstocks. Non-traditional approaches to 3D printing offer a way to break free of the traditional confines of unsustainable petroleum-based reagents and chemical methods that require toxic monomers.<\/p>\n<p>A recent collaboration between the University of Wisconsin\u2019s Prof. AJ Boydston (Department of Chemistry) and Prof. Audrey Girard (Department of Food Science) has accomplished the first demonstration of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/additive+manufacturing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">additive manufacturing<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> denaturation (AMPD).<\/p>\n<p>The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/xlink.rsc.org\/?DOI=D4GC02932A\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Green Chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of photoresins for 3D printing (also referred to as additive manufacturing or AM) and related technologies are toxic, non-biodegradable, and sourced from unsustainable feedstocks. Non-traditional approaches to 3D printing offer a way to break free of the traditional confines of unsustainable petroleum-based reagents and chemical methods that require toxic monomers. A recent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}