Melt extrusion of thermoplastic materials is an important technique for fabricating tissue engineering scaffolds by additive manufacturing methods. Scaffold manufacturing is commonly achieved by one of the following extrusion-based techniques: fused deposition modelling (FDM), 3D-fiber deposition (3DF), and bioextrusion. FDM needs the input material to be strictly in the form of a filament, whereas 3DF and bioextrusion can be used to process input material in several forms, such as pellets or powder. This chapter outlines a common workflow for all these methods, going from the material to a scaffold, while highlighting the special requirements of particular methods. A few ways of characterizing the scaffolds are also briefly described.
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Calore, A. R., Sinha, R., Harings, J., Bernaerts, K. V., Mota, C., & Moroni, L. (2021). Additive Manufacturing Using Melt Extruded Thermoplastics for Tissue Engineering. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2147, pp. 75–99). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0611-7_7
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