In Situ Characterisation of Hydrogels via Dynamic Interface Printing

Abstract

Hydrogels have become pivotal materials for tissue engineering, robotics, biomedical devices, and sensing applications due to their diverse material compositions and tunable mechanical properties. While significant effort has focused on developing novel manufacturing approaches such as extrusion bioprinting and light-based fabrication methods, there has been limited work in real-time characterisation of manufactured parts, which often requires tedious parameter optimization to achieve the desired structural resolution and material properties. Here, we demonstrate a high-throughput approach based on Dynamic Interface Printing (DIP) that enables simultaneous in situ fabrication, mechanical cha..