Biomanufacturing: a US-China National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop.
A recent US-China National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop on biomanufacturing reviewed the state-of-the-art of an array of new technologies for producing scaffolds for tissue engineering, providing precision multi-scale control of material, architecture, and cells. One broad category of such techniques has been termed solid freeform fabrication. The techniques in this category include: stereolithography, selected laser sintering, single- and multiple-nozzle deposition and fused deposition modeling, and three-dimensional printing. The precise and repetitive placement of material and cells in a three-dimensional construct at the micrometer length scale demands computer control. These novel computer-controlled scaffold production techniques, when coupled with computer-based imaging and structural modeling methods for the production of the templates for the scaffolds, define an emerging field of computer-aided tissue engineering. In formulating the questions that remain to be answered and discussing the knowledge required to further advance the field, the Workshop provided a basis for recommendations for future work.
Sun
Wei
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Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Yan
Yongnian
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Lin
Feng
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Spector
Myron
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D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D001698:Biomedical Engineering; D002681:China; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004493:Education; D005582:Foundations; D023822:Tissue Engineering; D014481:United States
D001672:Biocompatible Materials