Surface free energy dominates the biological interactions of postprocessed additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V

VM Villapun Puzas, LN Carter, C Schroder… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Additive manufacturing (AM) has emerged as a disruptive technique within healthcare
because of its ability to provide personalized devices; however, printed metal parts still …

Mechano-bactericidal titanium surfaces for bone tissue engineering

TL Clainche, D Linklater, S Wong, P Le… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Despite advances in the development of bone substitutes and strict aseptic procedures, the
majority of failures in bone grafting surgery are related to nosocomial infections …

A design approach to facilitate selective attachment of bacteria and mammalian cells to additively manufactured implants

VM Villapún, LN Carter, N Gao, O Addison… - Additive …, 2020 - Elsevier
Additive manufacture (AM) of patient specific implants is rapidly growing, however,
customized devices typically exhibit higher infection rates. Herein the possibility to …

Combined infection control and enhanced osteogenic differentiation capacity on additive manufactured Ti‐6Al‐4V are mediated via titania nanotube delivery of novel …

J Li, I Mutreja, GJ Hooper, K Clinch… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Additive manufacturing (AM) of titanium alloys offers the capacity to fabricate patient‐specific
implants with defined porous architecture to enhance bone‐implant fixation. However …

Modulation of MG-63 Osteogenic Response on Mechano-Bactericidal Micronanostructured Titanium Surfaces

K Martins de Sousa, DP Linklater… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite recent advances in the development of orthopedic devices, implant-related failures
that occur as a result of poor osseointegration and nosocomial infection are frequent. In this …

Surface finish has a critical influence on biofilm formation and mammalian cell attachment to additively manufactured prosthetics

SC Cox, P Jamshidi, NM Eisenstein… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies enable greater geometrical design freedom
compared with subtractive processes. This flexibility has been used to manufacture patient …

Bone regeneration performance of surface-treated porous titanium

SA Yavari, J van der Stok, YC Chai, R Wauthle… - Biomaterials, 2014 - Elsevier
The large surface area of highly porous titanium structures produced by additive
manufacturing can be modified using biofunctionalizing surface treatments to improve the …

Osteogenic and antibacterial surfaces on additively manufactured porous Ti-6Al-4V implants: Combining silver nanoparticles with hydrothermally synthesized HA …

M Fazel, HR Salimijazi, M Shamanian… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recently developed additively manufacturing techniques have enabled the fabrication of
porous biomaterials that mimic the characteristics of the native bone, thereby avoiding stress …

3-D printed Ti-6Al-4V scaffolds for supporting osteoblast and restricting bacterial functions without using drugs: Predictive equations and experiments

NJ Bassous, CL Jones, TJ Webster - Acta Biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Conditions resulting from musculoskeletal deficiencies (MSDs) are wide-ranging and retain
the likelihood for restricting motion or producing pain, especially in the lower back, neck, and …

Additive manufacturing process creates local surface roughness modifications leading to variation in cell adhesion on multifaceted TiAl6V4 samples

A Lerebours, P Vigneron, S Bouvier, A Rassineux… - Bioprinting, 2019 - Elsevier
This work looks at the effect of the surface texture variability on cell adhesion and cell
morphology of an osteoblastic linage (MC3T3) using a multifaceted TiAl6V4 (stem-like) …