... 3D printing Shape-memory polymer composite Tracheal scaffold Tissue engineering Tissue engineering is an advancing discipline focused on developing functional replacements for impaired or diseased tissues through the use of biomaterials, cells and growth factors. Scaffolds are designed...

...Punjan Dohare; Ankit Sharma Purpose This paper explores the transformative potential of three-dimensional (3D) printing (additive manufacturing) in the medical field, aiming at its applications in orthopaedics, biomedical implants, surgical tools, drug delivery, tissue engineering and medical...

... containing PEG. Originality/value The new strategy is easily scalable and seems to be very promising to manufacture biodegradable thermoplastic/metal composite filaments for 3D printing that can take advantage of the different properties of both components from the viewpoint of tissue engineering...

...Mohit Kumar; Varun Sharma Purpose Additive manufacturing (AM) or solid freeform fabrication (SFF) technique is extensively used to produce intrinsic 3D structures with high accuracy. Its significant contributions in the field of tissue engineering (TE) have significantly increased in the recent...

... engineering applications. Yuan-Min Lin can be contacted at: ymlin@ym.edu.tw 19 06 2019 06 09 2019 30 10 2019 01 01 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only 3D printing Hydroxyapatite Polycaprolactone Tissue...

... additive manufacturing or scaffolds engineering. Social implications This work can help to improve the overall performance of the polymer scaffolds used in tissue engineering. Originality/value The results of this study demonstrate feasibility of NMR imaging for preclinical characterization of 3D...

...@scut.edu.cn 03 06 2017 17 08 2017 18 08 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Slicing Bio-scaffolds DMD Tissue engineering The structural design of bio-scaffolds in tissue engineering can be generally divided...

...Hanxiao Wang; Marco Domingos; Fabio Scenini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of nano hydroxyapatite (HA) and graphene oxide (GO) particles on thermal and mechanical performances of 3D printed poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) filaments used in bone tissue engineering (BTE...

...Dario Puppi; Alessandro Pirosa; Andrea Morelli; Federica Chiellini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the fabrication and characterization of poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-(R)-3-hydroxyexanoate] (PHBHHx) tissue engineering scaffolds with anatomical shape and customized porous...

... as is appropriate for the scaffolds’ model with internal pore architecture and external free-form surface. Practical implications Bio-scaffolds in tissue engineering require precise control over material distribution, such as the porosity, connectivity, internal pore architecture and external free-form surface...

... show possibilities of manufacturing small high-strength lattice microstructures by SLM using Ti-6Al-7Nb titanium alloy powders for tissue engineering. Andrzej Pawlak can be contacted at: andrzej.p.pawlak@pwr.edu.pl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Rapid manufacturing Scaffolds...

...M. Tarik Arafat; Ian Gibson; Xu Li Purpose – This paper aims to review the advances in additive manufactured (AM) scaffolds for bone tissue engineering (TE). A discussion on the state of the art and future trends of bone TE scaffolds have been done in terms of design, material and different AM...