Type II Photoinitiator and Tuneable Poly(Ethylene Glycol)-Based Materials Library for Visible Light Photolithography.

Tissue Eng Part A

Joint Quantum Institute and Physical Measurements Laboratory, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

Published: March 2020

Stereolithography (SL) has several advantages over traditional biomanufacturing techniques such as fused deposition modeling, including increased speed, accuracy, and efficiency. While SL has been broadly used in tissue engineering for the fabrication of three-dimensional scaffolds that can mimic the environment for cell growth and tissue regeneration, lithographic printing is usually performed on single-component materials cured with ultraviolet light, severely limiting the versatility and cytocompatibility of such systems. In this study, we report a highly tunable, low-cost photoinitiator system that we used to establish a systematic library of crosslinked materials based on low molecular weight poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate. We assessed the physicochemical properties, photocrosslinking efficiency, cost performance, and biocompatibility to demonstrate the capability of manufacturing a multimaterial complex tissue scaffold. [Figure: see text] Impact statement Stereolithography (SL) has advantages over traditional biomanufacturing techniques, including accuracy and efficiency. While SL has been broadly used for fabricating three-dimensional scaffolds that can mimic the environment for cell growth and tissue regeneration, lithographic printing is usually performed on single-component materials cured with ultraviolet light, severely limiting the versatility and cytocompatibility of such systems. In this study, we report a highly tunable photoinitiator system and establish a systematic library of crosslinked materials based on poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate. We assessed the physicochemical properties, photocrosslinking efficiency and biocompatibility to demonstrate the capability of manufacturing a multimaterial complex tissue scaffold.

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