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ArticleScientific reports2017

Direct Ink Write (DIW) 3D Printed Cellulose Nanocrystal Aerogel Structures.

Vincent Chi-Fung Li, Conner K Dunn, Zhe Zhang, Yulin Deng, H Jerry Qi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers.

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65 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Vincent Chi-Fung LiRenewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Atlanta, GA, 30318, USA.
Conner K DunnRenewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
Zhe ZhangRenewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Atlanta, GA, 30318, USA.
Yulin DengRenewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Atlanta, GA, 30318, USA. yulin.deng@rbi.gatech.edu.
H Jerry QiRenewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Institute of Technology, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA. qih@me.gatech.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pure cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) aerogels with controlled 3D structures and inner pore architecture are printed using the direct ink write (DIW) technique. While traditional cellulosic aerogel processing approaches lack the ability to easily fabricate complete aerogel structures, DIW 3D printing followed by freeze drying can overcome this shortcoming and can produce CNC aerogels with minimal structural shrinkage or damage. The resultant products have great potential in applications such as tissue scaffold templates, drug delivery, packaging, etc., due to their inherent sustainability, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. Various 3D structures are successfully printed without support material, and the print quality can be improved with increasing CNC concentration and printing resolution. Dual pore CNC aerogel scaffolds are also successfully printed, where the customizable 3D structure and inner pore architecture can potentially enable advance CNC scaffold designs suited for specific cell integration requirements.

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PMCPMC5556020

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