What we measure on the bench: equipment behavior, failure modes, and the numbers behind every claim we make.
Research
A laboratory study of phthalate leaching from three common 3D printing filaments — PLA, PETG and ABS — after 10 days of static immersion in freshwater and artificial seawater. Of the four target compounds (DMP, DEP, DBP and DOP), only DOP was detected, at 0.019–0.026 mg·L⁻¹ — including in the blank controls, which points to background contamination rather than release from the filaments. Under these short-term conditions no remarkable release of the target phthalates was observed; longer-term, multi-condition testing and further methodological validation are still required.
