Journal
BIO-DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 14-42Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s42242-021-00165-0
Keywords
Additive manufacturing; 3D bioprinting; Biofabrication; Organ-on-a-chip; Tissue engineering
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- Politecnico di Milano, Attivita di Ricerca e Innovazione [2018-5-HH.0]
- Italian Space Agency [2018-5-HH.0]
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Bioprinting is a multidisciplinary research field that combines additive manufacturing, biology, and material sciences to create bioconstructs resembling natural living tissues. This field has gained significant interest due to the possibility of reproducing biological tissues and organs, and has attracted extensive research efforts from companies, universities, and research institutes. This paper reviews and analyzes the scientific literature and patenting results from 2000-2020 to provide an overview of the scientific and industrial landscape of bioprinting.
The multidisciplinary research field of bioprinting combines additive manufacturing, biology and material sciences to create bioconstructs with three-dimensional architectures mimicking natural living tissues. The high interest in the possibility of reproducing biological tissues and organs is further boosted by the ever-increasing need for personalized medicine, thus allowing bioprinting to establish itself in the field of biomedical research, and attracting extensive research efforts from companies, universities, and research institutes alike. In this context, this paper proposes a scientometric analysis and critical review of the current literature and the industrial landscape of bioprinting to provide a clear overview of its fast-changing and complex position. The scientific literature and patenting results for 2000-2020 are reviewed and critically analyzed by retrieving 9314 scientific papers and 309 international patents in order to draw a picture of the scientific and industrial landscape in terms of top research countries, institutions, journals, authors and topics, and identifying the technology hubs worldwide. This review paper thus offers a guide to researchers interested in this field or to those who simply want to understand the emerging trends in additive manufacturing and 3D bioprinting. [GRAPHICS] .
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