4D Printed Surgical Devices: Current Capabilities and Challenges

Rodrigo Zapata Martínez, Carlos Aguilar, William Solórzano-Requejo, William Solórzano-Requejo, Oscar Contreras-Almengor, Carlos Polvorinos Fernández, Jon Molina-Aldareguia, Andrés Díaz Lantada

2023

Abstract

The concept of 4D printing refers to the ability of a 3D printed material or device to change shape in a predefined manner controlled from the design stage. Currently, 4D printing research is performed by employing various additive technologies and materials, whose special design features or functional properties allow for these shape transformations or metamorphoses after printing. This smart shape-morphing behaviour is already providing innovative concepts for biomedical engineering and healthcare technologies, although important advances are still needed towards impactful transfer to society. This study presents different polymeric additive manufacturing technologies: stereolithography, digital light processing and selective laser sintering, that can be employed towards shape-morphing or 4D printed medical devices, in some cases at prototyping level, in others for final production. Through the prototyping of different joints and kinematic chains, configured as potential surgical actuators, the potentials and limitations of these resources are studied and good design practices and future applications for 4D printed biodevices are provided. The applicability of polymeric 4D printing to emulate and predict 4D printability with high-performance alloys is discussed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zapata Martínez R., Aguilar C., Solórzano-Requejo W., Contreras-Almengor O., Polvorinos Fernández C., Molina-Aldareguia J. and Díaz Lantada A. (2023). 4D Printed Surgical Devices: Current Capabilities and Challenges. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES; ISBN 978-989-758-631-6, SciTePress, pages 157-163. DOI: 10.5220/0011744300003414

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices23,
author={Rodrigo Zapata Martínez and Carlos Aguilar and William Solórzano-Requejo and Oscar Contreras-Almengor and Carlos Polvorinos Fernández and Jon Molina-Aldareguia and Andrés Díaz Lantada},
title={4D Printed Surgical Devices: Current Capabilities and Challenges},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES},
year={2023},
pages={157-163},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011744300003414},
isbn={978-989-758-631-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES
TI - 4D Printed Surgical Devices: Current Capabilities and Challenges
SN - 978-989-758-631-6
AU - Zapata Martínez R.
AU - Aguilar C.
AU - Solórzano-Requejo W.
AU - Contreras-Almengor O.
AU - Polvorinos Fernández C.
AU - Molina-Aldareguia J.
AU - Díaz Lantada A.
PY - 2023
SP - 157
EP - 163
DO - 10.5220/0011744300003414
PB - SciTePress