Fabrication of porous β-TCP scaffolds by combination of rapid prototyping and freeze drying technology

Biomaterial Scaffold Fabrication Techniques for Potential Tissue Engineering Applications

“…It can rapidly produce 3D object by using layer manufacturing method. RP technique generally comprises the design of scaffold model by using the computer added design (CAD) software, which is then expressed as a series of cross section (Lin et al, 2008, Woodfield et al, 2009). Corresponding to each cross section RP machine lays down a layer of material starting from the bottom and moving up a layer at a time to create the scaffolds.…”

Hierarchical structures of β-TCP/45S5 bioglass hybrid scaffolds prepared by gelcasting

“…Several methods have been developed for processing three-dimensional (3D) scaffolds (Deville et al, 2006;Lin et al, 2008;Kim et al, 2009;Chopra et al, 2012;. Evidently, each of these techniques in spite of its advantages will have inherent drawbacks, and cannot fully satisfy some characteristics required for an ideal scaffold, for example, suitable mechanical strength, controlled total porosity and pore sizes, and well-defined pore connectivity .…”

Scaffolds in the microbial resistant era: Fabrication, materials, properties and tissue engineering applications

“…Many production techniques have been developed for porous materials to be used as scaffolds in tissue engineering applications, such as electrospinning [ 3 , 8 ], phase separation [ 43 , 44 ], gas foaming [ 45 , 46 ], porogen method [ [47] , [48] , [49] ], polymerization in solution [ [50] , [51] , [52] , [53] , [54] ], fiber mesh coating [ 55 , 56 ], self-assembly [ 57 , 58 ], membrane lamination [ 59 , 60 ], freeze drying [ 1 , 61 , 62 ], 3D-printing [ [63] , [64] , [65] ] and bioprinting [ 66 ], among others [ 67 ]. These methods require the use or introduction of materials with intrinsic antimicrobial activity as fillers to produce antimicrobial scaffolds.…”