Abstract
Rapid prototyping or referred as layered manufacturing has been widely used in fabricating 3D components from CAD data. It has evolved from liquid, plastic, powder to metal-based systems in the past two decades. Recently, 3D printing using polymeric material has caught much attention in many industry applications including in micro- and bio-fabrication due to its advantage of layer manufacturing. In this chapter, drop-on-demand (DoD) printing will be specially discussed. Among those, the novel electrohydrodynamic jet printing (E-jetting) and piezo-actuated micro-dispensing methods will be described in details. Their applications to biomedical engineering - e.g., PCL scaffolding, HA bioactive multilayered coating, and cell printing - will be presented to demonstrate its potentials.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | HandBook of Manufacturing Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag London Ltd |
| Pages | 2567-2583 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781447146704 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781447146698 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |