A review on powder-based additive manufacturing for tissue engineering: selective laser sintering and inkjet 3D printing
Top Cited Papers
Open Access
- 20 June 2015
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
- Vol. 16 (3), 033502
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1468-6996/16/3/033502
Abstract
Since most starting materials for tissue engineering are in powder form, using powder-based additive manufacturing methods is attractive and practical. The principal point of employing additive manufacturing (AM) systems is to fabricate parts with arbitrary geometrical complexity with relatively minimal tooling cost and time. Selective laser sintering (SLS) and inkjet 3D printing (3DP) are two powerful and versatile AM techniques which are applicable to powder-based material systems. Hence, the latest state of knowledge available on the use of AM powder-based techniques in tissue engineering and their effect on mechanical and biological properties of fabricated tissues and scaffolds must be updated. Determining the effective setup of parameters, developing improved biocompatible/bioactive materials, and improving the mechanical/biological properties of laser sintered and 3D printed tissues are the three main concerns which have been investigated in this article.Keywords
Funding Information
- IPPP (PG012-2012B)
- Higher Education of Malaysia (MOHE) (UM.C/HIR/MOHE/ENG/10 D000010-16001)
- Bright Spark
- UMRG (RP021-2012A)
This publication has 142 references indexed in Scilit:
- Effects of silica and zinc oxide doping on mechanical and biological properties of 3D printed tricalcium phosphate tissue engineering scaffoldsDental Materials, 2011
- Development of a characterization approach for the sintering behavior of new thermoplastics for selective laser sinteringPhysics Procedia, 2010
- Mechanical and microstructural properties of polycaprolactone scaffolds with one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional orthogonally oriented porous architectures produced by selective laser sinteringActa Biomaterialia, 2010
- Ceramic scaffolds produced by computer‐assisted 3D printing and sintering: Characterization and biocompatibility investigationsJournal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, 2010
- Bone tissue engineering therapeutics: controlled drug delivery in three-dimensional scaffoldsJournal of The Royal Society Interface, 2009
- Effect of sintering atmosphere and carbon content on the densification and microstructure of laser-sintered M2 high-speed steel powderMaterials Science and Engineering: A, 2005
- Improved surface finish in 3D printing using bimodal powder distributionRapid Prototyping Journal, 2003
- A comparison of rapid prototyping technologiesInternational Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 1998
- Effect of ?-alanyl-L-histidinato zinc on differentiation of osteoblastic MC3T3-El cells: Increases in alkaline phosphatase activity and protein concentrationMolecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 1994
- The glass transition temperature (Tg) as an index of chemical conversion for a high‐Tg amine/epoxy system: Chemical and diffusion‐controlled reaction kineticsJournal of Applied Polymer Science, 1990