Bioink properties before, during and after 3D bioprinting

K Hölzl, S Lin, L Tytgat, S Van Vlierberghe, L Gu… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Bioprinting is a process based on additive manufacturing from materials containing living
cells. These materials, often referred to as bioink, are based on cytocompatible hydrogel …

Superabsorbent polymers: A review on the characteristics and applications of synthetic, polysaccharide-based, semi-synthetic and 'smart'derivatives

A Mignon, N De Belie, P Dubruel… - European Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
The current review provides an overview of different types of superabsorbent polymers
(SAPs) together with appropriate strategies elaborated to enable their synthesis. The main …

Research on the printability of hydrogels in 3D bioprinting

Y He, FF Yang, HM Zhao, Q Gao, B Xia, JZ Fu - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
As the biocompatible materials, hydrogels have been widely used in three-dimensional (3D)
bioprinting/organ printing to load cell for tissue engineering. It is important to precisely …

Application of soy protein isolate and hydrocolloids based mixtures as promising food material in 3D food printing

J Chen, T Mu, D Goffin, C Blecker, G Richard… - Journal of Food …, 2019 - Elsevier
Rheological properties, printability, and 3D printed geometries texture of soy protein isolate
(SPI) mixtures with sodium alginate and gelatin were investigated. The SPI and their …

(Photo-) crosslinkable gelatin derivatives for biofabrication applications

J Van Hoorick, L Tytgat, A Dobos, H Ottevaere… - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Over the recent decades gelatin has proven to be very suitable as an extracellular matrix
mimic for biofabrication and tissue engineering applications. However, gelatin is prone to …

Carrageenan-based physically crosslinked injectable hydrogel for wound healing and tissue repairing applications

N Pettinelli, S Rodriguez-Llamazares, R Bouza… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel injectable hydrogel based on iota and kappa carrageenan, locust bean
gum and gelatin was prepared for wound healing and tissue repairing applications. This …

Differentiation of physical and chemical cross-linking in gelatin methacryloyl hydrogels

L Rebers, R Reichsöllner, S Regett, GEM Tovar… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Gelatin methacryloyl (GM) hydrogels have been investigated for almost 20 years, especially
for biomedical applications. Recently, strengthening effects of a sequential cross-linking …

Cross-linkable gelatins with superior mechanical properties through carboxylic acid modification: increasing the two-photon polymerization potential

J Van Hoorick, P Gruber, M Markovic… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The present work reports on the development of photo-cross-linkable gelatins sufficiently
versatile to overcome current biopolymer two-photon polymerization (2PP) processing …

Preparation and properties of self-healable and conductive PVA-agar hydrogel with ultra-high mechanical strength

X Sun, C Luo, F Luo - European Polymer Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Developing hydrogels with excellent mechanical properties and functions is important and
challenging. Herein, commercial available materials, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and agar, are …

High-resolution 3D bioprinting of photo-cross-linkable recombinant collagen to serve tissue engineering applications

L Tytgat, A Dobos, M Markovic, L Van Damme… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Various biopolymers, including gelatin, have already been applied to serve a plethora of
tissue engineering purposes. However, substantial concerns have arisen related to the …