State of the art and future direction of additive manufactured scaffolds-based bone tissue engineering

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-26

  Arafat, M Tarik ^a   Gibson, Ian ^a   Li, Xu ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Additive manufacturing; Bone; Scaffolds; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FUTURE TRENDS; RECENT RESEARCHES; STATE OF THE ART; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

3D PRINTERS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BONE; RESEARCH; SCAFFOLDS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

EID: 84892404553     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/RPJ-03-2012-0023     Document Type: Article

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