Materials used in RepRap 3-D printing with reference. Most common:
- ABS
- PLA
Others:
- Nylon (e.g. Taulman 618 Nylon)
- PC
- PVA - PolyVinyl Alcohol -- is a cold water soluble 3D printer filament.
- HDPE -- M.A. Kreiger, M.L. Mulder, A.G. Glover, J. M. Pearce, Life Cycle Analysis of Distributed Recycling of Post-consumer High Density Polyethylene for 3-D Printing Filament, Journal of Cleaner Production, 70, pp. 90–96 (2014). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.02.009. open access
- Laywood - wood-fiber composites - usually nylon and wood fiber
- Laybrick -
- low friction, Iglide Tribo-Filament that can be used for custom parts and bearings
- elastomer - see Ninjaflex
- High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) filament -
- Steel - Open-source metal 3-D printer - Gerald C. Anzalone, Chenlong Zhang, Bas Wijnen, Paul G. Sanders and Joshua M. Pearce, “Low-Cost Open-Source 3-D Metal Printing” IEEE Access, 1, pp.803-810, (2013). doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2013.2293018 open access preprint
- Carbon fiber reinforced filament-
- Carbon nanotube reinforced filament
- PEEK
- Polyphenylsulfone (PPSF or PPSU) -
- Polyetherimide (PEI) is an amorphous, amber-to-transparent thermoplastic with characteristics similar to the related plastic PEEK.-
- cleaning filament
- POM - Polyoxymethylene -lots of good data