A cooperation between research and industry successfully improves resin-based 3D printing.
Nature-Inspired Lightweight Cellular Co-Continuous Composites
The use of Polyjet 3D printing technology to fabricate novel complex and architected lightweight cellular co-continuous composites has been proposed.
Silk Fibroin/Gelatin Scaffold for Knee Cartilage Regeneration
Professor Yingfang Ao from Peking University Third Hospital, Haifeng Chen from Peking University, and colleagues use 3D printing to generate a silk fibroin/gelatin scaffold for knee cartilage regeneration.
Uncovering Nature’s Design Strategies
Parametric modeling tools from the architectural design world are combined with 3D printing and material testing technologies from materials science to populate gaps in anatomical space.
Microvascular electrospun scaffolds
A combination of 3D printing and electrospinning can be used for micropatterning fibrous scaffolds that are suturable, porous, and biodegradable.
In The Future, Implants Will Be Printed with Polymers
A biocompatible polyacrylate network for the build-up of artificial tissues is created by a 3D printing process.
Butterflies inspire magnetic robots that fly more efficiently
Monarch butterflies have inspired the design of 3D-printed robotic wings that rely on magnetic fields to generate their delicate movements.
New plastic material fully degrades in the ocean
A new material designed to dissolve only in salt water could help us prevent the accumulation of microplastics in the seas.
Better organoids mean better brain models
Mimicking one of the body’s most complex organs isn’t easy, but researchers are making progress.
A safer, more flexible graft gets to the heart of coronary artery bypass
Using a hydrogel coated with electrospun nanofiber, a new artery graft offers safer coronary artery bypass interventions.