An Investigation of the Behavior of Solvent based Polycaprolactone ink for Material Jetting

作者：He Yinfeng^*; Wildman Ricky D; Tuck Chris J; Christie Steven D R; Edmondson Steven

来源：Scientific Reports, 2016, 6(1): 20852.

DOI：10.1038/srep20852

An initial study of processing bioresorbable polycaprolactone (PCL) through material jetting was conducted using a Fujifilm Dimatix DMP-2830 material printer. The aim of this work was to investigate a potential solvent based method of jetting polycaprolactone. Several solvents were used to prepare a PCL solvent based ink and 1, 4-dioxane was chosen with the consideration of both solubility and safety. The morphology of PCL formed under different substrate temperatures, droplet spacings were investigated. Multi-layer PCL structures were printed and characterized. This work shows that biodegradable polycaprolactone can be processed through material jetting.

• 出版日期2016-2-12