Inkjet 3D Printing of Polymers Resistant to Fungal Attachment.

ABSTRACT: Inkjet 3D printing is an additive manufacturing method that allows the user to produce a small batch of customized devices for comparative study versus commercial products. Here, we describe the use of a commercial 2D ink development system (Dimatix material printing) to manufacture small batches of 3D medical or other devices using a recently characterized fungal anti-attachment material. Such printed devices may resist problems that beset commercial medical products due to colonization by the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. By sequentially introducing the cross-section bitmaps of the product's CAD model and elevating the print head height using the auto-clicking script, we were able to create complex self-support geometries with the 2D ink development system. The use of this pro

SUBMITTER: He Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8161124 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature