Three-dimensionally printed tissue engineering scaffolds for tissue regeneration
AssigneeNanochon, LLC
InventorsNathan Jonathan Castro, Benjamin Blair Holmes
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a three-dimensionally (3D) printed tissue engineering scaffold for tissue regeneration and a method for manufacturing the 3D printed tissue engineering scaffold. The 3D printed tissue engineering scaffold may be fabricated at least in part from a composite material having an insoluble component and soluble component. The three-dimensional tissue scaffolds of the disclosure may be fabricated via a rapid prototyping machine. In some instances, the three-dimensional shape of the fabricated tissue engineering scaffold may correspond to a three-dimensional shape of a tissue defect of a patient.
Claims18
A three-dimensional tissue scaffold comprising:
- two or more layers of a material,
- wherein the three-dimensional tissue scaffold comprises a plurality of pores having an average pore width,
- wherein a surface of the two or more layers of the material comprise a plurality of pits having an average width that is below a resolution of a rapid prototyping technology,
- wherein each of the two or more layers comprise a plurality of fibers of the material, and
- wherein the plurality of pits are along a surface of the plurality of fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.