inkjet printing
Development of ceramic powder aqueous ink for inkjet printing
Dr Rui Dou will be giving a presentation at the next group meeting on ‘Development of ceramic powder aqueous ink for inkjet printing’. The meeting will be on Thursday 26th May 2011 at 2 PM in Room B4 (Materials).
Inkjet printing and cell seeding thermoreversible photocurable gel structures
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Inkjet printing and cell seeding thermoreversible photocurable gel structures
Manuela Di Biase, Rachel E. Saunders, Nicola Tirelli and Brian Derby
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 2639-2646, DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00996B
We have developed a biocompatible fluid suitable for inkjet delivery that gels by a tandem mechanism of a rapid physical gelation followed by a photoactivated chemical cross-linking. We prepared 20 vol% aqueous solutions of acrylate functionalised Pluronic F127, a poly(ethylene glycol-b-propylene glycol-b-ethylene glycol) (PEO–PPO), with triethanolamine and eosin Y as a photocurable cross-linker combination; poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate was also added to the solution to improve the sol–gel transition. This fluid has a viscosity <20 mPa s at 5 °C and is suitable for inkjet printing. We used a piezoelectric drop-on-demand inkjet printer at this temperature to print single and multilayer structures on a substrate held at room temperature. The dimensions of the resulting structures are consistent with models developed for the interaction of overlapping drops. After photocrosslinking the resulting gel structures, which are stable in an aqueous environment, were successfully seeded with fibroblast cells also delivered by an inkjet printer.
Inkjet printing and cell seeding thermoreversible photocurable gel structures
Manuela Di Biase, Rachel E. Saunders, Nicola Tirelli and Brian Derby
DOI: 10.1039/C0SM00996B, Paper
Optimizing Inkjet Printing for Research in the Life Sciences
Dr Richard Knight will be speaking at this week’s group meeting ‘Optimizing Inkjet Printing for Research in the Life Sciences’. The meeting is tomorrow, Tuesday 15th June 2010 in Room B4 at 3.30 PM.
Digital Fabrication 2009
Prof. Brian Derby gave a Plenary Talk at NIPS/Digital Fabrication 2009 which took place in Louisville, USA (20-24th September 2009).
You can download his talk by clicking on the image below.
Applications for Inkjet Printing in Biology and Medicine by Brian Derby
Impact and Interaction of Adjacent Droplets
Dr Jonathan Stringer will be talking in tomorrow’s group meeting about ‘The impact and interaction of adjacent droplets’. The meeting will be at 3 PM in Room B4.
Inkjet Printing of Cellular Sheets
This week, Dr Rachel Saunders will talk about ‘Inkjet printing of cellular sheets and gelation mechanisms’ in the Group Meeting. The meeting will be in Room B4 at 3 PM on Thursday 2nd April 2009.
Group Meeting 19/03/09
Our group meeting this week will be on Thursday 19th March 2009 in Room C17 at 3.00 PM. The speaker is Dr Tianming Wang and he will speak on ‘Inkjet Printing Glucose Oxidase for Biosensor Applications’.
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