[nickparker]

This process has nothing to do with sintering - it's a new material for FDM that supports electroless nickel plating.

The hypothetical medical application is probably to seal a surface and/or apply functional coatings, eg various antimicrobial structures.

[Animats]

Right, but when it comes with excessive claims, it has to be compared against other approaches.

Plating on ABS is quite common. That's how plastic auto trim parts that look like metal are made. They don't have a smoothness problem.

[1] https://www.sharrettsplating.com/blog/what-do-you-know-about...