The Impact of Melt Electrowritten Scaffold Design on Porosity Determined by X-Ray Microtomography

Overview

Journal Tissue Eng Part C Methods

Specialties Anatomy & Histology
Biotechnology

Date 2019 May 24

PMID 31119986

Citations 9

Authors

Almoatazbellah Youssef

Andrei Hrynevich

Logan Fladeland

Andreas Balles

Jurgen Groll

Paul D Dalton

Simon Zabler

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Abstract

Melt electrowriting is an AM technology that bridges the gap between solution electrospinning and melt microextrusion technologies. It can be applied to biomaterials and tissue engineering by making a spectrum of scaffolds with various laydown patterns at dimensions not previously studied. Using submicrometer X-ray tomography, a "fingerprint" of porosity for such scaffolds can be obtained and used as an important measure for quality control, to ensure that the scaffold fabricated is the one designed and allows the selection of specific scaffolds based on desired porosities.

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