Integrated biomaterial scaffold with 3d printed lattice backbone
OwnerPeter Bertone, Levi Olevsky +1inventors
InventorsPeter Bertone, Levi Olevsky, Katherine Hixon
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Abstract
A bone graft scaffold including the combination of a lattice structure having a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) shape and a cryogel solution disposed within the lattice structure. Also described is a method of making an integrated bone graft scaffold by freezing a cryogel solution, pouring the cryogel solution onto a scaffold, and freezing the cryogel solution poured onto the lattice structure to form an integrated bone graft scaffold. The cryogel solution may be a chitosan-gelatin cryogel and the lattice structure may be a 3D printed gyroid lattice structure.
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A bone graft scaffold comprising:
- a lattice structure having a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) shape, wherein the lattice structure is 3D printed;
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- a cryogel solution disposed within the lattice structure.
A method of making a bone graft scaffold comprising:
- freezing a cryogel solution;
- pouring the cryogel solution onto a lattice structure having a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) shape, wherein the lattice structure is 3D printed;
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- freezing the cryogel solution poured onto the lattice structure to form the bone graft scaffold.
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