… Solid free-form techniques for making medical devices for controlled release of … methods
include stereo-lithography (SLA), selective laser sintering (SLS), ballistic particle manufacturing (…

… methods are mimicked for the preparation of engineered arte- … obvious, The terms ‘layered
manufacturing’, ‘automated fabri… ‘desktop manufacturing’ and ‘fast free-form for each process. …

… fabricate ideal scaffolds. This paper identifies essential structural characteristics and the
pre-requisites for fabrication techniques … fabrication techniques exist for TE scaffold production, …

… processes which allowed the simultaneous addition of cells to the scaffold interior regions
during the scaffold synthesis process. Homopolymer discs as well as blends of 10/90 (10% …

… tissue-engineered constructs can be prepared that contain a controlled … medicine. In the
following sections we discuss the state of the art in SFF techniques applied to scaffold fabrication…

… medical devices in terms of biocompatibility, device performance and failure led to advent of
technologies for scaffolds manufacturing. … The scaffolds prepared using SFF techniques are …

… ASTM has defined free-form manufacturing as ‘‘a process of joining materials to make …
The April 2012 issue of the Economist billed Free-form manufacturing as the production …

… The adaptation of conventional preparation methods, such as … novel fabrication techniques,
such as rapid prototyping or solid free-form procedures, with their many different methods to …

… The detailed description of the preparation of hydrogels is beyond the scope of this … Solid
free-form 3D patterning of polymeric materials by ink-jet printing. The solid free-form method is …

… This process produces alginate solid structures (Figures 2 and 3), by extruding a previously
prepared … , PH and Hollister, SJ, Indirect solid free form fabrication of local and global porous …