Book chapter
Chapter 3 - Biomaterials for bioprinting
Bioprinting, pp.51-86
Elsevier Inc
2022
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-85430-6.00001-7
Abstract
Biomaterials as bioinks are essential to 3D bioprinting. Bioinks can be formulated from a broad range of naturally occurring biomaterials as well as synthetic ones, or their combinations. It is often required to tailor the bioink formulation for a specific print with desired tissue-level functions. Usually, the rheological, mechanical, and biological properties of biomaterials underlie the performance of 3D bioprinting in a synergistic manner, leading to challenges to decouple specific mechanisms and to optimize the printing processes. It is thus necessary to explore fundamental yet complicated structure-process-function relationships of biomaterials toward rational design of bioinks for a variety of 3D bioprinting technologies. In this chapter, we provide in-depth discussions on a relatively comprehensive set of biomaterial components of bioinks, the corresponding bioprinting strategies, and the biological functions of printed structures. At last, we outline future perspectives and envision a central role of biomaterials in the further development of 3D bioprinting.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Chapter 3 - Biomaterials for bioprinting
- Creators
- Zeyu LuoXuan MuYu Shrike Zhang
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Bioprinting, pp.51-86
- DOI
- 10.1016/B978-0-323-85430-6.00001-7
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2022
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984276445902771
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