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Additive Manufacturing of Porous Biominerals

Zhao, Ran  
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Wittig, Nina Kolln
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De Angelis, Gaia  
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June 5, 2023
Advanced Functional Materials

Nature fabricates hard functional materials from soft organic scaffolds that are mineralized. To enable an energy-efficient locomotion of these creatures while maintaining their structural stability, nature often renders parts of these minerals porous. Unfortunately, methods to produce synthetic minerals with a similar degree of control over their multi length scale porous structure remain elusive. This level of control, however, would be required to design lightweight yet robust biominerals. Here, a room temperature process is presented that combines a localized mineralization with emulsion-based 3D printing to form cm sized biominerals possessing pores whose diameters range from the 100 s of nm up to the mm length scale. The samples encompass up to 80 wt% of CaCO3 and display a specific compressive strength that is significantly higher than that of previously reported 3D printed porous biominerals and close to those of trabecular bones. The universality of this approach by forming different types of bioactive minerals, including calcite, aragonite, and brushite is demonstrated. The ability to 3D print these materials under benign conditions renders this energy-efficient process well-suited to construct cm-sized lightweight yet load-bearing structures that might find applications, for example, in the design of the next generation of flying or motile objects.

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research article
DOI
10.1002/adfm.202300950
Web of Science ID

WOS:001000535600001

Author(s)
Zhao, Ran  
Wittig, Nina Kolln
De Angelis, Gaia  
Yuan, Tianyu  
Hirsch, Matteo  
Birkedal, Henrik
Amstad, Esther  
Date Issued

2023-06-05

Publisher

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH

Published in
Advanced Functional Materials
Subjects

Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry, Physical

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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Physics, Applied

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Physics, Condensed Matter

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Chemistry

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Materials Science

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Physics

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3d printing

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caco3

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emulsion templating

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porous biominerals

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mechanical-properties

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hydroxyapatite

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ceramics

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mineralization

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scaffolds

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aragonite

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hydrogels

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calcite

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tough

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shape

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