TCPoly’s heat-conducting plastics suitable for open-source FDM 3D printers

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TCPoly has developed what it says are the first heat-conducting plastics for open-source FDM 3D printers. The 3D-printing filaments have thermal conductivity up to 50 times higher than traditional plastics for making high-performance heat-transfer products, the company reports.

With up to 15 W/m-K, the filaments match the thermal conductivity of stainless steel with half the density of aluminum. They offer high toughness, flexibility, and corrosion resistance.