Murat Guvendiren
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nanomed Nanotechnol
3D printing has become a significant tool to achieve structural complexity in fabricating biomaterial scaffolds and medical devices. However, the currently printed devices from biodegradable polymers only serve as a structural support. They permit but do not promote biological function, due to a lack of bioactivity. Our goal is to develop a novel biodegradable polymer family for extrusionbased printing, with user defined and tunable bioactivity. In this presentation, we will summarize the curently available 3D printable polymeric biomaterials and present several novel approaches to design and develop novel printable polymers.