- Our origami creatures are featured on the cover of the Dutch physics magazine
- We have found a way to self-fold minimal surfaces from a flat state. The results are published in a paper in Applied Material Today (download the freely available paper here). See the related video below:
- MRS Bulletin has published a news article featuring our paper on the rational design of multi-material mechanical metamaterials.
- MRS Bulletin has published a news article featuring our paper on multiscale modeling of fatigue crack propagation in additively manufactured porous biomaterials.
- Honored and humbled to have been selected by our students as the best lecturer of the program "Biomedical Engineering" at TUDelft!
- The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) just released the names of the researchers granted the prestigious Vidi award (800,000 Euro). I am happy to be among those Vidi laureates. I will use the awarded funds to develop the next generation of implantable medical devices.
- Our paper is featured on the cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry B
Watch the related video:
- MRS Bulletin just published a news article featuring our recent paper in Science Advances. The news article describes how "origami lattices from flat sheets and patterning yield metamaterials with exotic functions"
- Our paper is featured on the cover of Materials Horizons
- Our paper is featured on the cover of Materials Horizons
- Our paper is featured on the cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry B
- My PhD student, Vahid Arbabi, was awarded the runner-up prize for the best PhD thesis by European Society of Biomechanics (ESB).
- Dutch national TV (NPO2) broadcasts a coverage of our research on additively manufactured implants within the prestigious program "De Kennis van Nu". See the coverage here:
- The special issue of Annals of Biomedical Engineering on additive manufacturing (Bioprinting) of tissues, organs, and biomaterials, which I guest edited, is published. It includes an extended editorial reviewing the applications of 3D printing in healthcare.
- The German magazine European Hospital features my lab (Additive Manufacturing Lab @TUDelft) in their latest issue:
- In its November 2016 issue, MRS Bulletin (one of the most highly respected journals in advanced materials research) published a story covering our recent paper in Materials Horizons.
- Shape-shifting soft materials developed in our lab are featured on the cover of Materials Horizons
- Our researched featured on the cover of Materials Horizons
- Received the Early Career Researcher Award
Press release by Elsevier: Dr. Amir A. Zadpoor has received the Early Career Researcher Award on the 6th International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues held
in Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA from 6-10 December 2015. This is the first
award of the journal of this sort with the purpose of identifying young
outstanding researchers in the research fields the journal covers, and
inviting them to be involved in the journal both as special issue
editors and board members.
Press release by TU Delft: 3D printing meets origami (BIO-ORIGAMI)
Complete
regeneration of functional tissues is the holy grail of tissue
engineering and could revolutionise treatment of many diseases.
Effective tissue regeneration often calls for multi-functional
biomaterials. Ideally, these porous biomaterials should be optimised not
only in terms of their 3D structure but also in terms of their surface
nano-topography.
3D printing enables us to create very complex 3D
structures, but the access to the surface is very limited during the 3D
printing process. Nanolithography techniques enable the generation of
very complex surface nano-topographies but generally only on flat
surfaces. There is currently no way of combining arbitrarily complex 3D
structures with arbitrarily complex surface nano-topographies.
In
this project, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding (i.e. origami)
is used to solve this deadlock. In this approach, flat surfaces are
first 3D printed in a particular way to teach them how to self-fold. The
flat surface is then decorated with complex nano-topographies. Finally,
the self-folding mechanism is activated to enable folding of the flat
sheet and the formation of complex 3D structures.
- Special issue on Mechanics of Additively Manufactured Biomaterials and Implants
Additive manufacturing (AM) has emerged as a powerful technique for
manufacturing of various types of biomaterials and implants. Using AM,
it is now possible to fabricate biomaterials with arbitrarily complex
shapes at different scales. The inventory of biomaterials that can be
used in this way continues to increase, extending the possible range of
products and applications. The mechanical properties of the resulting
materials and implants are of utmost importance, not only because a
certain level of mechanical support is needed in most applications but
also because the distribution of mechanical properties could
significantly influence tissue regeneration performance and
osseointegration. Moreover, the mechanical properties of biodegradable
biomaterials tend to change over time, as biodegradation progresses. AM
allows precise control of microarchitecture in porous biomaterials,
which has been shown to strongly affect mechanical behavior. We believe
that this is a good time to produce a special issue which brings
together the latest work on biomaterials made using AM and their
mechanical properties. The topics covered by the special issue include
(but are not limited to):
- Mechanical properties of AM porous biomaterials
- Relationship between processing parameters, micro-structure, and mechanical properties of AM biomaterialsDevelopments of new
- AM techniques to improve or adjust the mechanical properties of biomaterial
- AM implants
- New materials for AM with novel properties
- Mechanical properties of biodegradable biomaterials fabricated using AM
- Shape-property relationships in AM biomaterials
- Mechanical interactions, osseointegration, and tissue regeneration of AM biomaterials
Manuscript Submission:
Manuscripts should be formatted and be submitted online according to the instructions for Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-the-mechanical-behavior-of-biomedical-materials/1751-6161/guide-for-authors . The authors must select “SI: AM biomaterials” when specifying the “Article Type” in the submission system via http://ees.elsevier.com/jmbbm/default.asp. All submissions will undergo the peer review process.
Timelines:
Submission start: 1 November 2015
Submission deadline: 15 January 2016
Acceptance deadline: 30 June 2016
Expected publication of the special issue: August/September 2016
Guest Editors:
Amir A Zadpoor, Delft University of Technology
a.a.zadpoor@tudelft.nl
David Taylor, Trinity College Dublin
dtaylor@tcd.ie
