Indirect Rapid Prototyping: Opening Up Unprecedented Opportunities in Scaffold Design and Applications

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 58-83

  Houben, Annemie ^a   Van Hoorick, Jasper ^a,b   Van Erps, Jürgen ^b   Thienpont, Hugo ^a,b   Van Vlierberghe, Sandra ^a,b   Dubruel, Peter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Indirect 3D printing; Indirect rapid prototyping; Indirect solid free form fabrication; Lost mould; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

3D PRINTERS; BIOMATERIALS; MOLDS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION;

3-D PRINTING; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; HIERARCHICAL POROSITY; INDIRECT RAPID PROTOTYPING; SCAFFOLDS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING; SOLID FREE-FORM FABRICATION; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES; THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

BIOPOLYMER; BIOMATERIAL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOPRINTING; CERAMICS; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; INDIRECT RAPID PROTOTYPING; IRRADIATION; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOFABRICATION; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; HUMANS; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84963780775     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-016-1610-x     Document Type: Review

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