Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): Trans. AMMM
https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2021.2109571

Scaffolds, Implants and Drug Delivery Systems, ID 571

Atmospheric plasma sources for surface modifications in 3d printed scaffolds

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Thomas Neubert (Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, Braunschweig, Germany), Kristina Lachmann (Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, Braunschweig, Germany), Paolo Scopece (Nadir S.r.l., Venezia, Italy), Alessandro Patelli (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova, Padova, Italy), Lorenzo Moroni (MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht, Netherlands), Michael Thomas (Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, Braunschweig, Germany)

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Abstract

In this work we investigate the coating of 3D-printed polymer structures with a robotic atmospheric pressure plasma jet with (3-aminopropyl)tri-methoxysilane. In particular, we investigated how deeply the coatings penetrate into the porous polymer structures and whether the nucleophilic groups are preserved. The influence of other process parameters (duty cycle, temperature, angle of the plasma jet to the substrate surface) is also discussed.

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Neubert, T., Lachmann, K., Scopece, P., Patelli, A., Moroni, L., & Thomas, M. (2021). Atmospheric plasma sources for surface modifications in 3d printed scaffolds. Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, 3(1), 571. https://doi.org/10.18416/AMMM.2021.2109571