Rheological Characterization of Biomaterials Directs Additive Manufacturing of Strontium-Substituted Bioactive Glass/Polycaprolactone Microfibers
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Additive manufacturing via melt electrowriting (MEW) can create ordered microfiber scaffolds relevant for bone tissue engineering; however, there remain limitations in the adoption of new printing materials, especially in MEW of biomaterials. For example, while promising composite formulations of polycaprolactone with strontium‐substituted bioactive glass have been processed into large or disordered fibres, from what is known, biologically‐relevant concentrations (>10 wt%) have never been printed into ordered microfibers using MEW. In this study, rheological characterization is used in combination with a predictive mathematical model to optimize biomaterial formulations and MEW conditions required to extrude various PCL and PCL/SrBG biomaterials to create ordered scaffolds. Previously, MEW printing of PCL/SrBG composites with 33 wt% glass required unachievable extrusion pressures. The composite formulation is modified using an evaporable solvent to reduce viscosity 100‐fold to fall within the predicted MEW pressure, temperature, and voltage tolerances, which enabled printing. This study reports the first fabrication of reproducible, ordered high‐content bioactive glass microfiber scaffolds by applying predictive modeling.
Date Issued
2019-04-01
Date Acceptance
2019-03-14
Citation
Macromolecular Rapid Communications
ISSN
1022-1336
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
1
End Page
6
Journal / Book Title
Macromolecular Rapid Communications
Volume
40
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2019 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is the accepted version of the following article: Paxton, N. C., Ren, J., Ainsworth, M. J., Solanki, A. K., Jones, J. R., Allenby, M. C., Stevens, M. M., Woodruff, M. A., Rheological Characterization of Biomaterials Directs Additive Manufacturing of Strontium‐Substituted Bioactive Glass/Polycaprolactone Microfibers. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2019, 40, 1900019, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.201900019
Identifier
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/marc.201900019
Subjects
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Polymer Science
additive manufacturing
bioactive glass
melt electrowriting
polycaprolactone
tissue engineering
SCAFFOLDS
GLASS
additive manufacturing
bioactive glass
melt electrowriting
polycaprolactone
tissue engineering
03 Chemical Sciences
09 Engineering
Polymers
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-04-01