Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

3D-printed self-healing hydrogels via Digital Light Processing

  • Matteo Caprioli,
  • Ignazio Roppolo,
  • Annalisa Chiappone,
  • Liraz Larush,
  • Candido Fabrizio Pirri,
  • Shlomo Magdassi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22802-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Self-healing hydrogels can mimic the damage repair behaviour of living tissues, but such hydrogels have only been processed via extrusion-based additive manufacturing technology. Here, the authors demonstrate a rapidly self-healing hydrogel which can be processed by DLP printing.