3D Ice Printing of Tissues with Blood Vessels
April 16, 2024 | Terry Sharrer
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Ice-based 3D printing paves the way for engineering lifelike blood vessels
“[Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University] show “the possibility of using 3D ice printing to help create structures that resemble blood vessels in the body. . . . 3D ice printing generally involves adding a stream of water [i.e. heavy water, where deuterium replaces hydrogen atoms] to a very cold surface. “What makes our method different from other kinds of 3D printing is that instead of letting the water completely freeze while we’re printing, we let it maintain a liquid phase on top. This continuous process, which is what we call freeform, helps us to get a very smooth structure.” MORE
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