3D Printing of High Fidelity Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Speaker : Prof Paul Dalton – Würzburg University / Germany
Venue : 31 March 2016 @ 15:00 (Murdoch University, Senate Conference Room)
Considering the complexity of the structure and the organization of the natural tissues, a major challenge in tissue engineering applications is to produce three-dimensional (3D) structures that are anatomically accurate. Consequently, there has been a significant effort in developing techniques to manufacture substrates with a defined organization, however resolutions remain limited. Melt electrospinning writing is an additive manufacturing process that electrostatically stabilizes a molten thread, placing it accurately onto a collector. It can generate organized 3D scaffolds with a precise and predictable layer-by-layer deposition with finely resolved fibers. This solvent-free approach provides a pathways to clinical products while addressing the need for 3D architecture requirements for a variety of tissue engineering applications.
nce in biomedical materials, including polymer processing, surgery, nanotechnology and surface science. Originally from Perth, Australia, and trained as a materials scientist, he was part of a successful team in the 1990s taking an artificial cornea from concept to the clinic. Paul post-docced at the University of Toronto, Canada, and RWTH Aachen, Germany, working in neural tissue engineering and applying nanotechnology to life science applications. As an independent fellow at the University of Southampton, he invented melt electrospinning writing as a new 3D printing technology and performed experimental surgery to understand the neuroinflammation of hydrogels in the spinal cord. Between 2010 and 2013, he split his time between Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Paul has an H-Index of 36 from only 70 research articles published in journals including Advanced Materials, Progress in Polymer Science, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.