Progressive 3D Printing Technology and Its Application in Medical Materials

Daoyang Fan; Yan Li; Xing Wang; Tengjiao Zhu; Qi Wang; Hong Cai; Weishi Li; Yun Tian; Zhongjun Liu

doi:10.3389/fphar.2020.00122

Progressive 3D Printing Technology and Its Application in Medical Materials

Front Pharmacol. 2020 Mar 20:11:122. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.00122. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Daoyang Fan^{1

2}, Yan Li^{1

2}, Xing Wang^{3

4}, Tengjiao Zhu^{1

2}, Qi Wang⁵, Hong Cai^{1

2}, Weishi Li^{1

2}, Yun Tian^{1

2}, Zhongjun Liu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthopedic, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.
² Engineering Research Center of Bone and Joint Precision Medicine, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China.
³ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics & Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁴ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) printing enables patient-specific anatomical level productions with high adjustability and resolution in microstructures. With cost-effective manufacturing for high productivity, 3D printing has become a leading healthcare and pharmaceutical manufacturing technology, which is suitable for variety of applications including tissue engineering models, anatomical models, pharmacological design and validation model, medical apparatus and instruments. Today, 3D printing is offering clinical available medical products and platforms suitable for emerging research fields, including tissue and organ printing. In this review, our goal is to discuss progressive 3D printing technology and its application in medical materials. The additive overview also provides manufacturing techniques and printable materials.

Keywords: 3D pharmacological models; 3D printing; additive manufacturing; functional biomaterials; medical apparatus; tissue engineering.

Publication types

Review