A Versatile Open-Source Printhead for Low-Cost 3D Microextrusion-Based Bioprinting.

ABSTRACT: Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting promises to be essential in tissue engineering for solving the rising demand for organs and tissues. Some bioprinters are commercially available, but their impact on the field of Tissue engineering (TE) is still limited due to their cost or difficulty to tune. Herein, we present a low-cost easy-to-build printhead for microextrusion-based bioprinting (MEBB) that can be installed in many desktop 3D printers to transform them into 3D bioprinters. We can extrude bioinks with precise control of print temperature between 2-60 °C. We validated the versatility of the printhead, by assembling it in three low-cost open-source desktop 3D printers. Multiple units of the printhead can also be easily put together in a single printer carriage for building a multi-materi

SUBMITTER: Sanz-Garcia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7602012 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature