Additive manufacturing of biomaterials

By S. Bose, Dongxu Ke, H. Sahasrabudhe, A. Bandyopadhyay. Progress in Materials Science, 2017

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Biomaterials are used to engineer functional restoration of different tissues to improve human health and the quality of life. Biomaterials can be natural or synthetic. Additive manufacturing (AM) is a novel materials processing approach to create parts or prototypes layer-by-layer directly from a computer aided design (CAD) file. The combination of additive manufacturing and biomaterials is very promising, especially towards patient specific clinical applications. Challenges of AM technology along with related materials issues need to be realized to make this approach feasible for broader clinical needs. This approach is already making a significant gain towards numerous commercial biomedical devices. In this review, key additive manufacturing methods are first introduced followed by AM of different materials, and finally applications of AM in various treatment options. Realization of critical challenges and technical issues for different AM methods and biomaterial selections based on clinical needs are vital. Multidisciplinary research will be necessary to face those challenges and fully realize the potential of AM in the coming days.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• An overview of wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) in shipbuilding industry (2020, background): “…parts are built by respectively adding and depositing superfine layers of metal, polymer or ceramic powders or wires (Thompson et al. 2016; DebRoy et al. 2018) in many industries especially aerospace (Gisario et al. 2019), automotive (Giffi et al. 2014) and healthcare (Bose et al. 2018).”
• The Potential of Additive Manufacturing in the Smart Factory Industrial 4.0: A Review (2019, background): “The AM processes, which are commonly utilized in manufacturing parts from engineering materials for different purposes, are extrusion, sheet lamination, vat photo-polymerization, binder/material jetting, powder bed fusion, and direct energy deposition [40,41].”