An active microscaffold for applications in tissue engineering

Puwanan Chumtong, Masaru Kojima, Kenichi Ohara, Mitsuhiro Horade, Yasushi Mae, Yoshikatsu Akiyama, Masayuki Yamato, Tatsuo Arai

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Abstract

Assembling engineered tissues at the mesoscale into an engineered organ has specially attracted our attention since engineered organ usually has a very complex structure and cannot be fabricated simply by using a fixed scaffold. The fabrication of these composite tissues is, however, difficult since many different scaffolds are required. The flexible microsaffold, called 'changeable cell culture (C3) mold', is therefore proposed to simplify this task. C3 mold consists of 5×5 PDMS microactuator array with a diameter of 700 μm and spacing of 800 μm. The fabrication of cutout-shaped gel sheet is successfully carried out where mineral oil is used as the working fluid. This experiment indeed demonstrates the possibility of using C 3 mold in future tissue fabrication.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science, MHS 2013
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Print)9781479915293
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science, MHS 2013 - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: 10 Nov 201313 Nov 2013

Publication series

Name2013 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science, MHS 2013

Conference

Conference2013 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science, MHS 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityNagoya
Period10/11/1313/11/13

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