Speaker: Vincent Salles, University of Lyon

Panelist: Mengdi Han, Peking University

Time: 20:00-21:30 p.m., June 27, 2023, GMT+8

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Abstract:

Research in the biomedical field is important in helping to diagnose and treat diseases. With the aim of doing away with animal experiments as far as possible, researchers are trying to develop devices that enable in-vitro studies to be carried out. In recent years, 3D developments have been carried out to create more complex systems that are more representative of what actually happens in the body. 3D printing has played an important role in this development, with a proliferation of additive manufacturing techniques in the last decade. In this presentation, I propose to start from a general framework and talk about the main advantages and disadvantages of the various 3D printing techniques. Among the different additive manufacturing techniques developed so far, direct write electrospinning (DWE) is one of the few techniques that can prepare 3D microstructured scaffolds with high deposition resolution. We will see what kind of functional materials can be prepared with this process and in what extent it can help to develop new implants and in-vitro models.

Biography:

Dr. Vincent Salles is an Associate-Professor from the University of Lyon (France). He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the University of Limoges, France, in 2006. Before becoming getting his full position of Associate-Professor, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Lyon, from 2007 to 2009. Since September 2021, he has been a visiting researcher in the LIMMS (Laboratory for Integrated Micro-Mechatronics Systems), an international research laboratory between CNRS and the University of Tokyo, Japan. A large part of his activities have been dedicated to functional materials derived from electrospinning process, mainly for biomedical applications in the last years. He has been recently studying a combination between electrospinning and 3D-printing. This technique, named Direct-writing electrospinning, aims to create new functional scaffolds using resorbable polymers. Over the last decade, he has been PI of several regional and national projects.  

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