A review of trends and limitations in hydrogel-rapid prototyping for tissue engineering

T Billiet, M Vandenhaute, J Schelfhout… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
The combined potential of hydrogels and rapid prototyping technologies has been an
exciting route in developing tissue engineering scaffolds for the past decade. Hydrogels …

Bone tissue engineering: state of the art and future trends

AJ Salgado, OP Coutinho… - Macromolecular bioscience, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Although several major progresses have been introduced in the field of bone regenerative
medicine during the years, current therapies, such as bone grafts, still have many limitations …

Fabrication of 3D printed antimicrobial polycaprolactone scaffolds for tissue engineering applications

S Radhakrishnan, S Nagarajan, H Belaid… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Synthetic polymers are widely employed for bone tissue engineering due to their tunable
physical properties and biocompatibility. Inherently, most of these polymers display poor …

Gelatin‐methacrylamide hydrogels as potential biomaterials for fabrication of tissue‐engineered cartilage constructs

W Schuurman, PA Levett, MW Pot… - Macromolecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Gelatin‐methacrylamide (gelMA) hydrogels are shown to support chondrocyte viability and
differentiation and give wide ranging mechanical properties depending on several cross …

Thermo-mechanical properties of a highly filled polymeric composites for fused deposition modeling

M Nikzad, SH Masood, I Sbarski - Materials & Design, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents an investigation on thermal and mechanical properties of new metal-
particle filled Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) composites for applications in Fused …

Scaffold-based tissue engineering: rationale for computer-aided design and solid free-form fabrication systems

DW Hutmacher, M Sittinger, MV Risbud - TRENDS in Biotechnology, 2004 - cell.com
One of the milestones in tissue engineering has been the development of 3D scaffolds that
guide cells to form functional tissue. Recently, mouldless manufacturing techniques, known …

Patterning surfaces with functional polymers

Z Nie, E Kumacheva - Nature materials, 2008 - nature.com
The ability to pattern functional polymers at different length scales is important for research
fields including cell biology, tissue engineering and medicinal science and the development …

Stem cell-based tissue engineering with silk biomaterials

Y Wang, HJ Kim, G Vunjak-Novakovic, DL Kaplan - Biomaterials, 2006 - Elsevier
Silks are naturally occurring polymers that have been used clinically as sutures for centuries.
When naturally extruded from insects or worms, silk is composed of a filament core protein …

Biofabrication of osteochondral tissue equivalents by printing topologically defined, cell-laden hydrogel scaffolds

NE Fedorovich, W Schuurman… - … Engineering Part C …, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Osteochondral defects are prone to induce osteoarthritic degenerative changes. Many tissue-
engineering approaches that aim to generate osteochondral implants suffer from poor tissue …

Rapid prototyping in tissue engineering: challenges and potential

WY Yeong, CK Chua, KF Leong… - TRENDS in …, 2004 - cell.com
Tissue engineering aims to produce patient-specific biological substitutes in an attempt to
circumvent the limitations of existing clinical treatments for damaged tissue or organs. The …