A biomaterials approach towards the expansion of melt electrowriting

Melt electrowriting (MEW) is an emerging additive manufacturing technique that has unique advantages with respect to its ability to produce fibrous microarchitectures with high definition and reproducibility. This technique has been used to produce various tissue engineering scaffolds and other biomedical devices. This thesis studies the expansion of the MEW process by addressing two key limitations of the technique: 1. Increasing polymer variability beyond poly(caprolactone) (PCL) by processing two commercially available polymers, poly(L-lactide-co-caprolactone) (PLCL) and poly(propylene-co-ethylene) (PP-PE). 2. Improving the scaleup of the process by implementing a double nozzle technique.