An Investigation of the Behavior of Solvent based Polycaprolactone ink for Material Jetting

Sci Rep. 2016 Feb 12:6:20852. doi: 10.1038/srep20852.

Abstract

An initial study of processing bioresorbable polycaprolactone (PCL) through material jetting was conducted using a Fujifilm Dimatix DMP-2830 material printer. The aim of this work was to investigate a potential solvent based method of jetting polycaprolactone. Several solvents were used to prepare a PCL solvent based ink and 1, 4-dioxane was chosen with the consideration of both solubility and safety. The morphology of PCL formed under different substrate temperatures, droplet spacings were investigated. Multi-layer PCL structures were printed and characterized. This work shows that biodegradable polycaprolactone can be processed through material jetting.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't