Additive manufacturing of biomorphic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

Abstract Bone tissue engineering has evolved owing to new opportunities of deep customisation offered by additive manufacturing technologies. Gyroid structures, which have been widely used for energy absorption or chemical catalysis, are now being employed as biomorphic structures well provide customer-oriented scaffolds missing injured bones. Unfortunately, limited data in terms manufacturability and mechanical properties available the literature support a wide application scope, because bone match is strongly dependent on individual. Therefore, study aimed at addressing this lack knowledge, assessing metal gyroids further developing correlation structural response with designed geometry, so allow designer proper structure case-by-case basis. Biocompatible steel was manufacture samples via laser powder-bed fusion; their elastic moduli yield strengths were evaluated function orientation elementary cells, symmetry wall thickness based compression testing. Grounds given potential applications tibias vertebras.