Jong Young Kim et al 2008 J. Micromech. Microeng. 18 055027 doi:10.1088/0960-1317/18/5/055027
Jong Young Kim1, Eui Kyun Park2, Shin-Yoon Kim3, Jung-Woog Shin4 and Dong-Woo Cho1
Show affiliationsRecent developments in tissue-engineering techniques allow physicians to treat a range of previously untreatable conditions. In the development of such techniques, scaffolds with a controllable pore size and porosity have been manufactured using solid free-form fabrication methods to investigate cell interaction effects such as cell proliferation and differentiation. In this study, we describe the fabrication of scaffolds from two types of biodegradable materials using a precision deposition system that we developed. The precision deposition system uses technology that enables the manufacture of three-dimensional (3D) microstructures. The fabrication of 3D tissue-engineering scaffolds using the precision deposition system required the combination of several technologies, including motion control, thermal control, pneumatic control and CAD/CAM software. Through the fabrication and cell interaction analysis of two kinds of scaffolds using polycaprolactone and poly-lactic-co-glycolic acid, feasibility of application to the tissue engineering of the developed SFF-based precision deposition system is demonstrated.
Issue 5 (May 2008)
Received 7 February 2008, in final form 6 March 2008
Published 15 April 2008
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