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Dr YINFENG HE's Outputs (14)

Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yong, L. X., Zhou, Z., Vallières, C., He, Y., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Alexander, M. R., Avery, S., Wildman, R., & Irvine, D. (2024, August). Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening. Presented at International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Singapore, Singapore

The fungal pathogen Candida albicans (C. albicans) is particularly problematic for immunocompromised patients and those with medical implants. Introducing Candida-resistant medical devices could potentially reduce mortality rates from such infections... Read More about Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening.

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.

Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient (2024)
Journal Article
Rivers, G., Lion, A., Rofiqoh Eviana Putri, N., Rance, G., Moloney, C., Taresco, V., Crucitti, V. C., Constantin, H., Inê Evangelista Barreiros, M., Cantu, L. R., Tuck, C., Rose, F. R. A. J., Hague, R. J. M., Roberts, C. J., Turyanska, L., Wildman, R. D., & He, Y. (2024). Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient. Materials Today Advances, 22, Article 100493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100493

Additive manufacturing offers manufacture of personalised pharmaceutical tablets through design freedoms and material deposition control at an individual voxel level. This control goes beyond geometry and materials choices: inkjet based 3D printing e... Read More about Enabling High-fidelity Personalized Pharmaceutical Tablets through Multimaterial Inkjet 3D Printing with a Water-soluble Excipient.

Enabling high-fidelity personalised pharmaceutical tablets through multimaterial inkjet 3D printing with a water-soluble excipient (2024)
Journal Article
Rivers, G., Lion, A., Putri, N. R. E., Rance, G. A., Moloney, C., Taresco, V., Crucitti, V. C., Constantin, H., Evangelista Barreiros, M. I., Cantu, L. R., Tuck, C. J., Rose, F. R., Hague, R. J., Roberts, C. J., Turyanska, L., Wildman, R. D., & He, Y. (2024). Enabling high-fidelity personalised pharmaceutical tablets through multimaterial inkjet 3D printing with a water-soluble excipient. Materials Today Advances, 22, Article 100493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtadv.2024.100493

Additive manufacturing offers manufacture of personalised pharmaceutical tablets through design freedoms and material deposition control at an individual voxel level. This control goes beyond geometry and materials choices: inkjet based 3D printing e... Read More about Enabling high-fidelity personalised pharmaceutical tablets through multimaterial inkjet 3D printing with a water-soluble excipient.

Glycerol-based sustainably sourced resin for volumetric printing (2024)
Journal Article
Krumins, E., Lentz, J. C., Sutcliffe, B., Sohaib, A., Jacob, P. L., Brugnoli, B., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Cavanagh, R., Owen, R., Moloney, C., Ruiz-Cantu, L., Francolini, I., Howdle, S. M., Shusteff, M., Rose, F. R. A. J., Wildman, R. D., He, Y., & Taresco, V. (2024). Glycerol-based sustainably sourced resin for volumetric printing. Green Chemistry, 26(3), 1345-1355. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3gc03607c

Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (VAM) represents a revolutionary advancement in the field of Additive Manufacturing, as it allows for the creation of objects in a single, cohesive process, rather than in a layer-by-layer approach. This innovative t... Read More about Glycerol-based sustainably sourced resin for volumetric printing.

Strategies for Integrating Metal Nanoparticles with Two-Photon Polymerization Process: Toward High Resolution Functional Additive Manufacturing (2023)
Journal Article
Im, J., Liu, Y., Hu, Q., Trindade, G. F., Parmenter, C., Fay, M., He, Y., Irvine, D. J., Tuck, C., Wildman, R. D., Hague, R., & Turyanska, L. (2023). Strategies for Integrating Metal Nanoparticles with Two-Photon Polymerization Process: Toward High Resolution Functional Additive Manufacturing. Advanced Functional Materials, 33(39), Article 2211920. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202211920

This study reports the successful fabrication of complex 3D metal nanoparticle–polymer nanocomposites using two-photon polymerization (2PP). Three complementary strategies are detailed: in situ formation of metal nanoparticles (MeNPs) through a singl... Read More about Strategies for Integrating Metal Nanoparticles with Two-Photon Polymerization Process: Toward High Resolution Functional Additive Manufacturing.

Exploiting Generative Design for Multi-Material Inkjet 3D Printed Cell Instructive, Bacterial Biofilm Resistant Composites (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
he, Y., Begines, B., Trindade, G., Abdi, M., dubern, J.-F., Prina, E., Hook, A., Choong, G., Ledesma, J., Tuck, C., R. A. J. Rose, F., Hague, R., Roberts, C., De Focatiis, D., Ashcroft, I., Williams, P., Irvine, D., alexander, M., & Wildman, R. Exploiting Generative Design for Multi-Material Inkjet 3D Printed Cell Instructive, Bacterial Biofilm Resistant Composites

As our understanding of disease grows, it is becoming established that treatment needs to be personalized and targeted to the needs of the individual. In this paper we show that multi-material inkjet-based 3D printing, when backed with generative des... Read More about Exploiting Generative Design for Multi-Material Inkjet 3D Printed Cell Instructive, Bacterial Biofilm Resistant Composites.

Correction to “Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers” (2022)
Journal Article
Ruiz-Cantu, L., Trindade, G. F., Taresco, V., Zhou, Z., He, Y., Burroughs, L., Clark, E. A., Rose, F. R. A. J., Tuck, C., Hague, R., Roberts, C. J., Alexander, M., Irvine, D. J., & Wildman, R. D. (2022). Correction to “Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers”. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14(6), 8654. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c00035

The chemical structure of the drug trandolapril has been corrected in Figure 4c. The conclusions of the work have not been affected by this correction. (Figure present).

Ink-jet 3D printing as a strategy for developing bespoke non-eluting biofilm resistant medical devices (2021)
Journal Article
He, Y., Luckett, J., Begines, B., Dubern, J. F., Hook, A. L., Prina, E., Rose, F. R., Tuck, C. J., Hague, R. J., Irvine, D. J., Williams, P., Alexander, M. R., & Wildman, R. D. (2022). Ink-jet 3D printing as a strategy for developing bespoke non-eluting biofilm resistant medical devices. Biomaterials, 281, Article 121350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.121350

Chronic infection as a result of bacterial biofilm formation on implanted medical devices is a major global healthcare problem requiring new biocompatible, biofilm-resistant materials. Here we demonstrate how bespoke devices can be manufactured throu... Read More about Ink-jet 3D printing as a strategy for developing bespoke non-eluting biofilm resistant medical devices.

Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers (2021)
Journal Article
Ruiz-Cantu, L., Trindade, G. F., Taresco, V., Zhou, Z., He, Y., Burroughs, L., Clark, E. A., Rose, F. R., Tuck, C., Hague, R., Roberts, C. J., Alexander, M., Irvine, D. J., & Wildman, R. D. (2021). Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13(33), 38969-38978. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c07850

Controlling the microstructure of materials by means of phase separation is a versatile tool for optimizing material properties. Phase separation has been exploited to fabricate intricate microstructures in many fields including cell biology, tissue... Read More about Bespoke 3D-Printed Polydrug Implants Created via Microstructural Control of Oligomers.

Residual polymer stabiliser causes anisotropic electrical conductivity during inkjet printing of metal nanoparticles (2021)
Journal Article
Trindade, G. F., Wang, F., Im, J., He, Y., Balogh, A., Scurr, D., Gilmore, I., Tiddia, M., Saleh, E., Pervan, D., Turyanska, L., Tuck, C. J., Wildman, R., Hague, R., & Roberts, C. J. (2021). Residual polymer stabiliser causes anisotropic electrical conductivity during inkjet printing of metal nanoparticles. Communications Materials, 2(1), Article 47. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00151-0

Inkjet printing of metal nanoparticles allows for design flexibility, rapid processing and enables the 3D printing of functional electronic devices through co-deposition of multiple materials. However, the performance of printed devices, especially t... Read More about Residual polymer stabiliser causes anisotropic electrical conductivity during inkjet printing of metal nanoparticles.

Inkjet 3D Printing of Polymers Resistant to Fungal Attachment (2021)
Journal Article
He, Y., Vallières, C., Alexander, M. R., Wildman, R. D., & Avery, S. V. (2021). Inkjet 3D Printing of Polymers Resistant to Fungal Attachment. Bio-protocol, 11(9), Article e4016. https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc.4016

Inkjet 3D printing is an additive manufacturing method that allows the user to produce a small batch of customized devices for comparative study versus commercial products. Here, we describe the use of a commercial 2D ink development system (Dimatix... Read More about Inkjet 3D Printing of Polymers Resistant to Fungal Attachment.

Inkjet based 3D Printing of bespoke medical devices that resist bacterial biofilm formation (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
He, Y., Begines, B., Luckett, J., Dubern, J.-F., Hook, A., Prina, E., Rose, F. R., Tuck, C., Hague, R., Irvine, D., Williams, P., Alexander, M. R., & Wildman, R. D. Inkjet based 3D Printing of bespoke medical devices that resist bacterial biofilm formation

We demonstrate the formulation of advanced functional 3D printing inks that prevent the formation of bacterial biofilms in vivo. Starting from polymer libraries, we show that a biofilm resistant object can be 3D printed with the potential for shape a... Read More about Inkjet based 3D Printing of bespoke medical devices that resist bacterial biofilm formation.

Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration (2020)
Journal Article
Vallieres, C., Hook, A. L., He, Y., Crucitti, V. C., Figueredo, G., Davies, C. R., Burroughs, L., Winkler, D. A., Wildman, R. D., Irvine, D. J., Alexander, M. R., & Avery, S. V. (2020). Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration. Science Advances, 6(23), Article eaba6574. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba6574

© 2020 The Authors. Fungi have major, negative socioeconomic impacts, but control with bioactive agents is increasingly restricted, while resistance is growing. Here, we describe an alternative fungal control strategy via materials operating passivel... Read More about Discovery of (meth)acrylate polymers that resist colonization by fungi associated with pathogenesis and biodeterioration.