Journal
BIOFABRICATION
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1758-5090/abe7ab
Keywords
3D bioprinting; printability; bioink; extrusion; extrudability; filament fidelity; structural integrity
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [RGPIN-2019-06396]
- 111 Project from the Ministry of Education, China [G2017002]
- Drexel University [260676]
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Extrusion bioprinting is widely used in biomedical applications to build three-dimensional constructs using continuous filaments of bioink. Printability is a key parameter to measure the difference between designed and printed structures. Understanding the effects of bioink properties, printing process, and construct design on printability is crucial for improving extrusion bioprinting.
Extrusion bioprinting has been widely used to extrude continuous filaments of bioink (or the mixture of biomaterial and living cells), layer-by-layer, to build three-dimensional constructs for biomedical applications. In extrusion bioprinting, printability is an important parameter used to measure the difference between the designed construct and the one actually printed. This difference could be caused by the extrudability of printed bioink and/or the structural formability and stability of printed constructs. Although studies have reported in characterizing printability based on the bioink properties and printing process, the concept of printability is often confusingly and, sometimes, conflictingly used in the literature. The objective of this perspective is to define the printability for extrusion bioprinting in terms of extrudability, filament fidelity, and structural integrity, as well as to review the effect of bioink properties, bioprinting process, and construct design on the printability. Challenges related to the printability of extrusion bioprinting are also discussed, along with recommendations for improvements.
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