An Investigation of the Behavior of Solvent based Polycaprolactone ink for Material Jetting

Yinfeng He; Ricky D. Wildman; Chris J. Tuck; Steven D.R. Christie; Steven Edmondson

doi:10.1038/srep20852

An Investigation of the Behavior of Solvent based Polycaprolactone ink for Material Jetting

Yinfeng He^*
, Ricky D. Wildman
, Chris J. Tuck
, Steven D.R. Christie
, Steven Edmondson

^*Corresponding author for this work

CBI Intelligent Manufacturing Centre

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Abstract

An initial study of processing bioresorbable polycaprolactone (PCL) through material jetting was conducted using a Fujifilm Dimatix DMP-2830 material printer. The aim of this work was to investigate a potential solvent based method of jetting polycaprolactone. Several solvents were used to prepare a PCL solvent based ink and 1, 4-dioxane was chosen with the consideration of both solubility and safety. The morphology of PCL formed under different substrate temperatures, droplet spacings were investigated. Multi-layer PCL structures were printed and characterized. This work shows that biodegradable polycaprolactone can be processed through material jetting.

Original language	English
Article number	20852
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/srep20852
Publication status	Published - 12 Feb 2016

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