Polymers for 3D printing and customized additive manufacturing

SC Ligon, R Liska, J Stampfl, M Gurr… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Additive manufacturing (AM) alias 3D printing translates computer-aided design (CAD)
virtual 3D models into physical objects. By digital slicing of CAD, 3D scan, or tomography …

Emerging 3D‐printed electrochemical energy storage devices: a critical review

X Tian, J Jin, S Yuan, CK Chua… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Three‐dimensional (3D) printing, a layer‐by‐layer deposition technology, has a
revolutionary role in a broad range of applications. As an emerging advanced fabrication …

Measurements of the mechanical response of unidirectional 3D-printed PLA

Y Song, Y Li, W Song, K Yee, KY Lee, VL Tagarielli - Materials & Design, 2017 - Elsevier
Fully dense PLA blocks were manufactured by 3D-printing, depositing a polymer filament in
a single direction via the fusion deposition method (FDM). Specimens were cut from printed …

Competent processing techniques for scaffolds in tissue engineering

RC Dutta, M Dey, AK Dutta, B Basu - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
Engineering a functional tissue ex vivo requires a synchronized effort towards developing
technologies for ECM mimicking scaffold and cultivating tissue-specific cells in an integrated …

Printing of three-dimensional tissue analogs for regenerative medicine

VK Lee, G Dai - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Three-dimensional (3-D) cell printing, which can accurately deposit cells,
biomaterial scaffolds and growth factors in precisely defined spatial patterns to form …

A comparison of tensile failure in 3D-printed and natural sandstone

D Vogler, SDC Walsh, E Dombrovski, MA Perras - Engineering Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
This work investigates the possibility of replication of natural rock specimens, which can be
used to analyze rock mechanical behavior by subjecting a number of identical specimens to …

Advances in hot-melt extrusion technology toward pharmaceutical objectives

I Hwang, CY Kang, JB Park - Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Hot Melt Extrusion (HME) technology is a widely used for manufacturing process in
the plastic and pharmaceutical industries and is an efficient and simple for the production of …

Layer-by-layer bioassembly of cellularized polylactic acid porous membranes for bone tissue engineering

V Guduric, C Metz, R Siadous, R Bareille… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - Springer
The conventional tissue engineering is based on seeding of macroporous scaffold on its
surface (“top–down” approach). The main limitation is poor cell viability in the middle of the …

Poly-l-lactic acid: pellets to fiber to fused filament fabricated scaffolds, and scaffold weight loss study

P Ravi, PS Shiakolas, TR Welch - Additive Manufacturing, 2017 - Elsevier
Poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA) is a bioresorbable polymer used in a variety of biomedical
applications. Many 3D printers employ the fused filament fabrication (FFF) approach with the …

Biofabrication in tissue engineering

T Woodfield, K Lim, P Morouço… - Reference Module …, 2017 - researchportal.hw.ac.uk
Organ biofabrication techniques offer the potential to produce living 3D tissue constructs to
repair or replace damaged or diseased human tissues and organs. Using these advanced …