Original Publications

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Electrophysiological characterization of embryonic hippocampal neurons cultured in a 3D collagen hydrogel (with Tao Xu, Peter Molnar, Gregory Cassie, Mainak Das, and Jay J. Hickman), Biomaterials (2009)

Rat embryonic hippocampal neurons were cultured in (1) 3D collagen hydrogels as 'entrapped' evenly distributed...

 

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Fabrication and characterization of bio-engineered cardiac pseudo tissues (with Tao Xu, Catalin Baicu, Michael Aho, and Michael Zile), Biofabrication (2009)

We report to fabricate functional three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs by using an inkjet based bio-prototyping...

 

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Human microvasculature fabrication using thermal inkjet printing technology (with Xiaofeng Cui), Biomaterials (2009)

The current tissue engineering paradigm is that successfully engineered thick tissues must include vasculature. As...

 

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Loading dependent swelling and release properties of novel biodegradable, elastic and environmental stimuli-sensitive polyurethanes (with Changhong Zhang, Kejia Zhao, TJ Hu, Xiaofeng Cui, and Nathan Brown), J Control Release (2008)

A novel degradable, elastic, anionic, and linear polyurethane was synthesized from hexamethylene diisocyanate, polycaprolactone diol,...

 

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Synthesis and characterization of biodegradable elastomeric polyurethane scaffolds fabricated by the inkjet technique.” (with Changhong Zhang, Xuejun Wen, and Narendra R. Vyavahare), Biomaterials (2008)

Biodegradable polyurethanes (PUs) were synthesized from methylene di-p-phenyl-diisocyanate (MDI), polycaprolactone diol (PCL-diol) and N,N-bis (2-hydorxyethyl)-2-aminoethane-sulfonic...

 

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Viability and Electrophysiology of Neural Cell Structures generated by the Inkjet Printing Method (with Tao Xu, Cassie Gregory, Peter Molnar, S Jalota, and Sarit B. Bhaduri), Biomaterials (2006)

Complex cellular patterns and structures were created by automated and direct inkjet printing of primary...

 

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Advances in Tissue Engineering: Cell Printing (with David Varghese, Malay Deshpande, Priya Kesari, and S Ohri), J. Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (2005)
 

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Inkjet printing of viable mammalian cells (with Tao Xu, Joyce Jin, Cassie Gregory, and Jay J. Hickman), Biomaterials (2005)

The purpose of this study was to explore the use of a commercial thermal printer...

 

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Construction of High- Density Bacterial Colony Arrays and Patterns by the Ink Jet Method (with Tao Xu, Sevastioni Petridou, Eric H. Lee, Elisabeth A. Roth, Narendra R. Vyavahare, and Jay J. Hickman), Biotechnol. Bioeng. (2004)

We have developed a method for fabricating bacterial colony arrays and complex patterns using commercially...

 

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Inkjet Printing for High Throughput Cell Patterning (with Elisabeth A. Roth, Tao Xu, Mainak Das, Cassie Gregory, and Jay J. Hickman), Biomaterials (2004)

The adaptation of inkjet printing technology to the complex fields of tissue engineering and biomaterial...

 

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Tissue-Engineering Constructs, Using Photopolymerizable Hydrogels and Stereolithography.” (with Busaina Dhariwala and Elaine Hunt), Tissue Engineering (2004)

One of the most important aspects of tissue engineering is the design of the scaffold...

 

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A Quantitative Approach to Studying Structures and Orientation at Self- Assembled Monolayer/Fluid Interfaces" (with Laura Pardo), J. Coll. Interf. Sci. (2003)

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have become a standard tool for exploring surface interactions. Although well characterized,...

 

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Cell and Organ Printing 1: Protein and Cell Printers (with Cris Wilson), Anat. Rec. A Discov. Mol. Cell. Evol. Biol. (2003)

We have developed several devices for positioning organic molecules, molecular aggregates, cells, and single-cell organisms...

 

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Cell And Organ Printing 2: Fusion of Cell Aggregates In Three-Dimensional Gels (with Vladimir Mironov, Anna Gutowska, Elisabeth A. Roth, and Roger R. Markwald), Anat. Rec. A Discov. Mol. Cell. Evol. Biol. (2003)

We recently developed a cell printer (Wilson and Boland, 2003) that enables us to place...

 

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Characterization of Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers and Protein Arrays Generated by the Ink-Jet Method (with Laura F. Pardo), Langmuir (2003)

Commercial ink-jet printers were used with little modification to deposit alkanethiols onto gold substrata and...

 

Review Papers

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Application of Inkjet Printing to Tissue Engineering (with Tao Xu, Brook Damon, and Xiaofeng Cui), Biotechnology J (2006)

ecent advances in organ printing technology for applications relating to medical interventions and organ replacement...

 

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Organ printing: computer aided jet based 3D tissue engineering (with Vladimir Mironov, Thomas Trusk, Gabor Forgacs, and Roger R. Markwald), Trends Biotechnol (2003)

Tissue engineering technology promises to solve the organ transplantation crisis. However, assembly of vascularized 3D...