Inkjet Bioprinting
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2016) | Viewed by 200
Special Issue Editor
Interests: 3D bioprinting; metal additive manufacturing; design for additive manufacturing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The rapid growth of the world’s population and the increase of human life expectancy has been leading to an increase in demand of organs for transplant. Bioprinting is one of the most up-and-coming tissue engineering branches on the path to produce viable tissue for implantation, and it will be addressed and discussed in this Special Issue. Recent advances have enabled 3D printing of biocompatible materials, cells and supporting components into complex 3D functional living tissues.
Compared with laser and extrusion techniques, ink-jet technology can more easily fabricate complex and heterogeneous parts with a resolution defined by the size of each droplet. As such, droplet-based techniques have been favored in many pixel-by-pixel, layer-by-layer biofabrication applications instead of layer-by-layer only.
Dr. Bingbing Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Biomimicry
- Self-assembly
- Droplet on demand
- Degradation kinetics and byproducts
- Printability
