Soft actuators for soft robotic applications: A review

N El-Atab, RB Mishra, F Al-Modaf… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a
wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, grip**, human …

Fabrication of biomedical scaffolds using biodegradable polymers

A Kirillova, TR Yeazel, D Asheghali… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Degradable polymers are used widely in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Maturing capabilities in additive manufacturing coupled with advances in orthogonal …

Designing biomaterials for 3D printing

M Guvendiren, J Molde, RMD Soares… - … biomaterials science & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is becoming an increasingly common technique to fabricate
scaffolds and devices for tissue engineering applications. This is due to the potential of 3D …

Recent advances in 3D printing of biomaterials

HN Chia, BM Wu - Journal of biological engineering, 2015 - Springer
Abstract 3D Printing promises to produce complex biomedical devices according to
computer design using patient-specific anatomical data. Since its initial use as pre-surgical …

Stereolithographic (SLA) 3D printing of oral modified-release dosage forms

J Wang, A Goyanes, S Gaisford, AW Basit - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The aim of this work was to evaluate the suitability of stereolithography (SLA) to fabricate
drug-loaded tablets with modified-release characteristics. The SLA printer creates solid …

Biodegradable polymers for biomedical additive manufacturing

D Puppi, F Chiellini - Applied materials today, 2020 - Elsevier
The tremendous interest received by additive manufacturing (AM) within the biomedical
community is a consequence of the great versatility offered in terms of processing approach …

Biomedical applications of biodegradable polyesters

I Manavitehrani, A Fathi, H Badr, S Daly… - Polymers, 2016 - mdpi.com
The focus in the field of biomedical engineering has shifted in recent years to biodegradable
polymers and, in particular, polyesters. Dozens of polyester-based medical devices are …

Self-folding thermo-magnetically responsive soft microgrippers

JC Breger, CK Yoon, R **ao, HR Kwag… - … applied materials & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels such as poly (N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylic acid)(pNIPAM-AAc) can be
photopatterned to create a wide range of actuatable and self-folding microstructures …

A review on fabricating tissue scaffolds using vat photopolymerization

NA Chartrain, CB Williams, AR Whittington - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Vat Photopolymerization (stereolithography, SLA), an Additive Manufacturing (AM)
or 3D printing technology, holds particular promise for the fabrication of tissue scaffolds for …

Fabrication of drug-loaded hydrogels with stereolithographic 3D printing

PR Martinez, A Goyanes, AW Basit… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D printing (3DP) technologies have been attracting much recent interest as new
methods of fabricating medicines and medical devices. Of the many types of 3DP available …