main repo: https://gitlab.com/jguece/nautilus-miller-columns-patch
updated commit link: https://gitlab.com/jguece/nautilus-miller-columns-patch/-/commit/54a78c720694eb9333768a1e9e1c98d34d7baee2
Haven't tried it yet but looks kinda neat. Bear in mind this is experimental stage software.
No idea if this material will be 3d-printable, but felt like noting this paper 'High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation' ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63904-2 , Oct. 2025) to this subreddit that talks about biodegradability and strength.
Curious what folks think since I've been curious about PHA but wonder what could be used in applications that need a bit more strength.
From the paper:
"Bioplastics derived from renewable biomass, such as polylactic acid (PLA) and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), have emerged as alternatives. However, their adoption remains constrained by critical limitations. Starch-based bioplastics compete with food crops for feedstocks, while PHA production relies on costly fermentation processes and petrochemical inputs. Furthermore, most bioplastics exhibit inadequate mechanical strength, thermal stability, and processability compared to conventional plastics, hindering their use in demanding applications like automotive or infrastructure^(17). These challenges highlight a pressing scientific gap: how to transform abundant, non-food biomass into high-performance materials that match or exceed the functional properties of petrochemical plastics while enabling circularity.
Bamboo, a rapidly growing lignocellulosic resource, yields up to 78.3 tons per hectare—4.5 times more than traditional timber—making it a scalable and sustainable feedstock. Recent efforts to fabricate bamboo-based plastics through cellulose extraction and hot-pressing have achieved partial success (Supplementary Table 1), fully demonstrating the exceptional mechanical properties of bamboo fibers, yet the resulting materials suffer from brittleness (elongation rate ≤ 5%), limited moldability, and insufficient mechanical robustness. A fundamental bottleneck lies in the hierarchical structure of native cellulose, where rigid hydrogen-bond (H-bond) networks restrict molecular mobility and interfacial interactions, impeding effective shaping and performance optimization. Addressing this requires innovative strategies to deconstruct and reconfigure cellulose at the molecular level while retaining its intrinsic strength.
Here, we propose a solvent-mediated molecular engineering strategy to fabricate high-performance bamboo molecular plastics (BM-plastics) with tunable H-bond networks."