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ReviewBioactive materials2020

Photo-curing 3D printing technique and its challenges.

Haoyuan Quan, Ting Zhang, Hang Xu, Shen Luo, Jun Nie, Xiaoqun Zhu

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Review in Bioactive materials, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 275 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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275citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

275 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Haoyuan QuanCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, PR China.
Ting ZhangCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, PR China.
Hang XuCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, PR China.
Shen LuoCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, PR China.
Jun NieCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, PR China.
Xiaoqun ZhuCollege of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, PR China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent ten years, 3D printing technology has been developed rapidly. As an advanced technology, 3D printing has been used to fabricate complex and high-precision objects in many fields. 3D printing has several technologies. Among these technologies, photo-curing 3D printing was the earliest and most mature technology. In 1988, the first 3D printing machine which was based on photo-curing and called Stereo lithography Appearance (SLA) technology was produced by 3D system Corp. After 30 years of development, many new technologies based on photocuring mechanism emerged. Based on the different principle of pattern formation and character of printing technology, numerous photocuring 3D printing techniques, such as SLA, DLP, LCD, CLIP, MJP, two-photon 3D printing, holographic 3D printing and so on, have been developed. Photo-curing 3D printing has many advantages, such as high precision, smooth surface of printing objects, rapid printing speed and so on. Here, we would introduce five industrial photocuring 3D printing technologies, which are SLA, DLP, LCD, CLIP and MJP. The characters of the materials and the progress of the application of the technique in the biomedical field is also overviewed. At last, the difficulties and challenges of photo-curing 3D printing are also discussed.

Indexed as

3D printingBiomedical applicationsPhoto-curing

Identifiers

PMID32021945
PMCPMC6992881

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