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ReviewPolymers2025

Advances in Digital Light Processing (DLP) Bioprinting: A Review of Biomaterials and Its Applications, Innovations, Challenges, and Future Perspectives.

Cem Alparslan, Şenol Bayraktar

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Review in Polymers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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24citing 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

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

  1. Critical Systematic Review of 3D Bioprinting in Biomedicine.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  4. Computational approaches in bioprinting processes.Nature reviews bioengineering · 2026
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  6. Thiolated Polymers in 3D Bioprinting: Control of Gelation.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Cem AlparslanFaculty of Engineering and Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize 53100, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0001-7316-360X
Şenol BayraktarFaculty of Engineering and Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize 53100, Türkiye.ORCID 0000-0001-8226-0188

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Digital light processing (DLP) technology stands out as a groundbreaking method in the field of biomedical engineering that enables the production of highly precise structures using photopolymerizable materials. Smart materials such as shape memory polymers, hydrogels, and nanocomposites are used as ideal materials for personalized medicine applications thanks to their properties such as superior mechanical strength, biocompatibility, and sensitivity to environmental stimuli in DLP technology. The integration of these materials with DLP enables the production of functional and complex structures, especially in areas such as bone and soft tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biosensor production. However, limited material diversity, scalability problems in production processes, and technical difficulties in optimizing bioprinting parameters are among the main obstacles in this field. This study systematically examines the role of smart biomaterials in DLP-based bioprinting processes. It addresses the innovative applications of these materials in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. It also comprehensively evaluates its contributions to biomedical applications and discusses future research areas to overcome current limitations.

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bioceramicsDLPhydrogelnanocompositepolymersmart material

Identifiers

PMID40363070
PMCPMC12074245

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