MIBE Seminar Talk Award 2022

Junge Wissenschaftler:innen am MIBE präsentieren bei den "MIBE Seminar Talks" Highlights ihrer Forschung im Feld des Biomedical Engineerings. In diesem Rahmen wird jedes Jahr eine Person intern für den besten Vortrag gekürt.

Kilian Müller, Doktorand am Lehrstuhl für Medizintechnische Materialien und Implantate, hat diesen Preis mit seiner Präsentation zum Thema "Melt Electrowriting of Bioinspired Scaffolds for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering"  für das Sommersemester 2022 gewonnen.

Abstract: Melt Electrowriting (MEW) is an electric field assisted fiber forming technology that has proven to be a valuable tool for additive manufacturing (AM) of bioinspired scaffolds for cardiovascular tissue engineering. By combining electrohydrodynamic fiber forming with accurate deposition control in a layer-by-layer fashion, MEW allows to fabricate precisely defined 3D scaffold architectures from polymer microfibers. This talk presents MEW as a micro-AM technique and highlights recent advances in the design and fabrication of MEW scaffolds for cardiovascular tissue engineering. To this end, a digital design platform for the automatized generation of toolpaths for MEW is introduced, and the actual scaffold fabrication strategies are discussed. Furthermore, the structure-property relationships of such scaffolds are elucidated both from a mechanical as well as a biological perspective.