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"3D bioprinting" refers to processes in which an additive manufacturing approach is used to create devices for medical applications. This volume considers exciting applications for 3D bioprinting, including its use in manufacturing artificial tissues, surgical models, and orthopedic implants.
List of contents
1. 3D Bioprinting of Tissues and Organs: A Comprehensive Review of the Techniques, Recent Advances, and their Applications in Organ Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 2. Digital Light Processing (DLP) and its Biomedical Applications 3. Jet Printing of Buffer-Free Bioinks by Nozzle-Free Pyro-Electrohydrodynamics 4. Additive Manufacturing of Surgical Models 5. Stereolithography Additive Manufacturing of Ceramic Dental Crowns 6. Additive Manufacturing of Orthopaedic Implants 7. ECG Dry Electrodes Design and Analysis 8. 3D Bioprinting for the Regenerative Medicine and Disease Modeling of Ocular Surface
About the author
Dr. Roger Narayan is a Distinguished Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an author of over two hundred and fifty publications as well as several book chapters on biomedical materials. He serves as an editorial board member for several publications, including as executive editor of Biomaterials Forum magazine (Society for Biomaterials) and associate editor of Applied Physics Reviews (AIP Publishing). Dr. Narayan has edited several books, including the handbook Materials for Medical Devices (ASM International), the textbook Biomedical Materials (Springer), the Encyclopedia of Sensors and Biosensors (Elsevier), and the Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering (Elsevier). He has served as director of the ASM International Emerging Technologies Awareness Committee, the TMS Functional Materials Division, and the American Ceramic Society Bioceramics Division. Dr. Narayan has received many honors for his educational and research activities, including the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the National Science Faculty Early Career Development Award, the TMS Functional Materials Division Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award, and the American Ceramic Society Richard M. Fulrath Award. He has been elected as Fellow of AIMBE, ASM International, AAAS, the Materials Research Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and American Ceramic Society.
