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Rapid Deposition of Hydrogel Layers by Inkjet Printing
Don McCallum
Cameron Ferris
Paul Calvert
Marc in het Panhuis
Gordon Wallace
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2010.26.1.art00047_2  Published Online :  January 2010
Abstract

A piezo inkjet printer was built for the rapid printing of hydrogels and other biological materials. Materials printed included the synthetic polymers; poly-diallyl-dimethyl ammonium chloride and polystyrene sulfonate, and the naturally occurring polymers chitosan and alginate.Using these polymers, the printer was able to create robust hydrogels of size 17mm x 17mm x 2 mm high in under five minutes. This speed and size of production is of relevance in enabling tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and other technologies. Furthermore - live cells were successfully jet by the same printer, and could withstand the printing forces and remained viable in printed hydrogels for several days after printing.

Journal Title : NIP & Digital Fabrication Conference
Publisher Name : Society of Imaging Science and Technology
Publisher Location : 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA
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Don McCallum, Cameron Ferris, Paul Calvert, Marc in het Panhuis, Gordon Wallace, "Rapid Deposition of Hydrogel Layers by Inkjet Printing"  in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP26),  2010,  pp 554 - 557,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2010.26.1.art00047_2

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Rapid Deposition of Hydrogel Layers by Inkjet Printing
McCallumDon
FerrisCameron
CalvertPaul
in het PanhuisMarc
WallaceGordon
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2010
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557
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A piezo inkjet printer was built for the rapid printing of hydrogels and other biological materials. Materials printed included the synthetic polymers; poly-diallyl-dimethyl ammonium chloride and polystyrene sulfonate, and the naturally occurring polymers chitosan and alginate.Using these polymers, the printer was able to create robust hydrogels of size 17mm x 17mm x 2 mm high in under five minutes. This speed and size of production is of relevance in enabling tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and other technologies. Furthermore - live cells were successfully jet by the same printer, and could withstand the printing forces and remained viable in printed hydrogels for several days after printing.