Designing Biomaterials for 3D Printing

By M. Guvendiren, Joseph S. Molde, R. Soares, Joachim Kohn. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering, 2016

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Three-dimensional (3D) printing is becoming an increasingly common technique to fabricate scaffolds and devices for tissue engineering applications. This is due to the potential of 3D printing to provide patient-specific designs, high structural complexity, rapid on-demand fabrication at a low-cost. One of the major bottlenecks that limits the widespread acceptance of 3D printing in biomanufacturing is the lack of diversity in “biomaterial inks”. Printability of a biomaterial is determined by the printing technique. Although a wide range of biomaterial inks including polymers, ceramics, hydrogels and composites have been developed, the field is still struggling with processing of these materials into self-supporting devices with tunable mechanics, degradation, and bioactivity. This review aims to highlight the past and recent advances in biomaterial ink development and design considerations moving forward. A brief overview of 3D printing technologies focusing on ink design parameters is also included.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

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• Recent Advances in Bioink Design for 3D Bioprinting of Tissues and Organs (2017, background): “April 2017 | Volume 5 | Article 231 Mini Review published: 05 April 2017 doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2017.00023 Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology | www.frontiersin.org Edited by: Giovanni Vozzi, University of Pisa, Italy Reviewed by: Piergiorgio Gentile, University of Sheffield, UK Arti Ahluwalia”
• Recent trends in bioinks for 3D printing (2018, background): “The advantages of using 3D bioprinting in biomedical field include the development of personalized patient-specific designs, high precision, low cost and on-demand creation of complex structures within a short time [7, 8].”