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Reactive Inkjet Printing Applications for Tissue Engineering
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2017.32.442  Published OnlineSeptember 2016
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A crosslinking agent (glutaraldehyde) was selectively inkjet printed at predetermined locations onto a sheet of virgin gelatin and washed to create biocompatible scaffolds of bespoke shapes. Fibroblasts were seeded onto these scaffolds and were shown to proliferate with no detrimental effects for 3 days compared to controls. This method of creating biocompatible scaffolds takes advantage of inkjet printing's ability to create complicated designs without compromise at a range of fibre diameters from as thin as 80µm. Fibroblasts were seen to cover the entire surface. Future research will be focused on using such technology in nerve repair.

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Christopher Tse, Patrick J Smith, "Reactive Inkjet Printing Applications for Tissue Engineeringin Proc. IS&T Printing for Fabrication: Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP32),  2016,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2017.32.442

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