Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Surface tension-assisted additive manufacturing

  • Héloïse Ragelle,
  • Mark W. Tibbitt,
  • Shang-Yun Wu,
  • Michael A. Castillo,
  • George Z. Cheng,
  • Sidharta P. Gangadharan,
  • Daniel G. Anderson,
  • Michael J. Cima,
  • Robert Langer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03391-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Integrating cell-laden hydrogels effectively into the 3D printing process is a challenge in the creation of tissue engineering scaffolds. Here, the authors describe an additive manufacturing technique to combine polymer and cell-containing networks with 3D-printed mechanical supports.