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Fungal Attachment-Resistant Polymers for the Additive Manufacture of Medical Devices (2024)
Journal Article
Yong, L. X., Sefton, J., Vallières, C., Rance, G. A., Hill, J., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Dundas, A. A., Rose, F. R., Alexander, M. R., Wildman, R., He, Y., Avery, S. V., & Irvine, D. J. (2024). Fungal Attachment-Resistant Polymers for the Additive Manufacture of Medical Devices. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16(40), 54508–54519. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c04833

This study reports the development of the first copolymer material that (i) is resistant to fungal attachment and hence biofilm formation, (ii) operates via a nonkilling mechanism, i.e., avoids the use of antifungal actives and the emergence of funga... Read More about Fungal Attachment-Resistant Polymers for the Additive Manufacture of Medical Devices.

A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering (2024)
Journal Article
Krumins, E., Crawford, L. A., Rogers, D. M., Machado, F., Taresco, V., East, M., Irving, S. H., Fowler, H. R., Jiang, L., Starr, N., Parmenter, C. D., Kortsen, K., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Avery, S. V., Tuck, C. J., & Howdle, S. M. (2024). A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 3137. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47376-4

Laser Sintering (LS) is a type of Additive Manufacturing (AM) exploiting laser processing of polymeric particles to produce 3D objects. Because of its ease of processability and thermo-physical properties, polyamide-12 (PA-12) represents ~95% of the... Read More about A facile one step route that introduces functionality to polymer powders for laser sintering.