Rapid freeze prototyping technique in bio-plotters for tissue scaffold fabrication

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 246-253

  Pham, Cong Bang ^a   Leong, Kah Fai ^a   Lim, Tze Chiun ^a   Chian, Kerm Sin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cryogenic equipment; Cytology; Heat engineering; Programming and algorithm theory; Rapid prototypes

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; CRYOGENICS; FABRICATION; FIBER OPTICS; FREEZING; JOB ANALYSIS; MACROS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RAPID PROTOTYPING; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TISSUE;

CHAMBER TEMPERATURES; CRYOGENIC EQUIPMENT; CYTOLOGY; DESIGN STEPS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FUTURE WORK; HEAT ENGINEERING; MICRO-POROUS STRUCTURE; POROUS PROPERTIES; POROUS SCAFFOLDS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PROGRAMMING AND ALGORITHM THEORY; PROTOTYPING; RAPID FREEZE PROTOTYPING; RAPID PROTOTYPES; STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS; TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE POLYMERS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 49149126216     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540810896193     Document Type: Article

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