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Inkjet Printing for Biomedical Applications

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Cell-Based Microarrays

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Inkjet printing can deposit politer volumes of a specified ink at precise locations on a substrate. Here we describe methods of using inkjet printing for cell patterning in the field of biomedical applications, either directly printing cells in cell media, or indirectly through printing a wax scaffold that guides cell orientation/attachment onto a substrate.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kroto Research Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Christopher Chi Wai Tse & Patrick J. Smith

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  1. Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Peter Ertl

  2. Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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Tse, C.W., Smith, P. (2018). Inkjet Printing for Biomedical Applications. In: Ertl, P., Rothbauer, M. (eds) Cell-Based Microarrays. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1771. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7792-5_9

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