Three-dimensional printing of nanomaterial scaffolds for complex tissue regeneration

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 103-114

  O'Brien, Christopher M ^a   Holmes, Benjamin ^a   Faucett, Scott ^b   Zhang, Lijie Grace ^a,b  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTTING TOOLS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); TISSUE; TISSUE REGENERATION;

3-D PRINTING; CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY; CUTTING EDGES; MULTI MATERIALS; PATIENT SPECIFIC; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) PRINTING;

3D PRINTERS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BIOPLOTTING; BIOPRINTING; CARTILAGE; FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING; HUMAN; MUSCLE TISSUE; NERVOUS TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING; STEREOLITHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; VASCULAR TISSUE; CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION;

HUMANS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; REGENERATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84922739314     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2014.0168     Document Type: Article

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