QUT biofabrication team has made a major breakthrough by 3D printing mechanically reinforced, tissue engineered constructs for the regeneration of body parts.
In an article published in Nature Communications, the biomedical engineers outlined how they had reinforced soft hydrogels via a 3D printed scaffold.
Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher, from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, said nature often used fibre reinforcement to turn weak structures into outstanding mechanically robust ones.
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Ref: Reinforcement of hydrogels using three-dimensionally printed microfibres. Nature Communications (2015) | DOI:10.1038/ncomms7933
Future tissue engineered 'replacement body parts' sees advance via 3D printed scaffolds
