Fused deposition modeling of novel scaffold architectures for tissue engineering applications
Fused deposition modeling of novel scaffold architectures for tissue engineering applications
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DOI:
10.1016/s0142-9612(01)00232-0
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发表时间:
2002-02-01
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14
通讯作者:
Teoh, SH
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作者:
Zein, I;Hutmacher, DW;Teoh, SH
Fused deposition modeling, a rapid prototyping technology, was used to produce novel scaffolds with honeycomb-like pattern, fully interconnected channel network, and controllable porosity and channel size. A bioresorbable polymer poly(epsilon -caprolactone) (PCL) was developed as a filament modeling material to produce porous scaffolds. made of layers of directionally aligned microfilaments, using this computer-controlled extrusion and deposition process. The PCL scaffolds were produced with a range of channel size 160-700 mum, filament diameter 260-370 mum and porosity 48-77%, and regular geometrical honeycomb pores, depending on the processing parameters. The scaffolds of different porosity also exhibited a pattern of compressive stress-strain behavior characteristic of porous solids under such loading. The compressive stiffness ranged from 4 to 77 MPa, yield strength from 0.4 to 3.6MPa and yield strain from 4% to 28%. Analysis of the measured data shows a high correlation between the scaffold porosity and the compressive properties based on a power-law relationship. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.