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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2021

A Smartphone-Enabled Portable Digital Light Processing 3D Printer.

Wanlu Li, Mian Wang, Luis Santiago Mille, Juan Antonio Robledo Lara, Valentín Huerta, Tlalli Uribe Velázquez, Feng Cheng, Hongbin Li, Jiaxing Gong, Terry Ching and 6 more

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. An Adhesive Bioink toward Biofabrication under Wet Conditions.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Wanlu LiDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2677-2765
Mian WangDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8311-8394
Luis Santiago MilleDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Juan Antonio Robledo LaraDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Valentín HuertaDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Tlalli Uribe VelázquezDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Feng ChengDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Hongbin LiDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Jiaxing GongDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Terry ChingDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Caroline A MurphyChristchurch Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CReaTE) Group, Department of Orthopaedics Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, 8011, New Zealand.
Ami LeshaDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Shabir HassanDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Tim B F WoodfieldChristchurch Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CReaTE) Group, Department of Orthopaedics Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, 8011, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5428-7575
Khoon S LimChristchurch Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CReaTE) Group, Department of Orthopaedics Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch, Christchurch, 8011, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2486-196X
Yu Shrike ZhangDivision of Engineering Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0045-0808

Funding

High-Throughput Volumetric Photoacoustic Imaging of Living Vascularized OrganoidsR01EB028143 · NIBIB · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI YAO, JUNJIE · 2019 to 2022
$2.0M
Recapitulating Ductal Carcinoma on a Chip for Personalized Breast Cancer TherapyR00CA201603 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ZHANG, Y. SHRIKE · 2019 to 2021
$747k
Multiscale Stereolithogrphic Bioprinting of Stage-Matching Vascularized Tumor ModelsR21EB025270 · NIBIB · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ZHANG, Y. SHRIKE · 2018 to 2020
$726k
Developing Hybrids of Cardiac Tissue and Biodegradable Electronics Towards Heart Implants with On-line Monitoring and Stimulating FunctionsR21EB026175 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI YU, CUNJIANG · 2018 to 2019
$468k
NCI NIH HHS R00 CA201603NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB028143NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB025270NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB026175
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

3D printing has emerged as an enabling approach in a variety of different fields. However, the bulk volume of printing systems limits the expansion of their applications. In this study, a portable 3D Digital Light Processing (DLP) printer is built based on a smartphone-powered projector and a custom-written smartphone-operated app. Constructs with detailed surface architectures, porous features, or hollow structures, as well as sophisticated tissue analogs, are successfully printed using this platform, by utilizing commercial resins as well as a range of hydrogel-based inks, including poly(ethylene glycol)-diacrylate, gelatin methacryloyl, or allylated gelatin. Moreover, due to the portability of the unique DLP printer, medical implants can be fabricated for point-of-care usage, and cell-laden tissues can be produced in situ, achieving a new milestone for mobile-health technologies. Additionally, the all-in-one printing system described herein enables the integration of the 3D scanning smartphone app to obtain object-derived 3D digital models for subsequent printing. Along with further developments, this portable, modular, and easy-to-use smartphone-enabled DLP printer is anticipated to secure exciting opportunities for applications in resource-limited and point-of-care settings not only in biomedicine but also for home and educational purposes.

Indexed as

3D printingbioprintingDigital Light Processingportable devicessmartphone

Identifiers

PMID34278618
PMCPMC8416928

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