GLOBAL MELT ELECTROWIRING MARKET

INTRODUCTION

Manufacturing fibrous scaffolds for soft tissue engineering applications that have customised micrometric characteristics and physiologically appropriate three-dimensional (3D) geometries is still a difficult task.

An improved additive manufacturing method that can deposit predetermined micrometric fibres is called melt electrowriting (MEW).

However, due to the requirement to prevent polymer jet instabilities, it has thus far been naturally restricted to simple planar and tubular scaffold geometries.

GLOBAL MELT ELECTROWIRING MARKET DEVELOPMENTS AND INNOVATIONS

The regulated production of a molten polymeric jet, which quickly hardens into a fibre using MEW's electric field and AM technology, is accomplished.

These submicron fibres may be reliably layered on top of one another, allowing for the direct writing of complex and multi-scaled designs and structures while also resolving the resolution issue that most other additive manufacturing technologies face.

The foundation is set for MEW to develop into a disruptive technology worth paying special attention to in the not too distant future when automation and stabilisation are introduced and refined. There is no other way to describe the volume and variety of improvements in this discipline that have occurred over the past four years except to say that the quick development of MEW is simply amazing.

COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

The 3D printing as well as additive manufacturing (AM) revolution that has engulfed the globe in recent years has been difficult to overlook.

The development of numerous new technologies has coincided with improvements made to already existing ones. These advancements point to printed goods that are more complex, accurate, and controllable for usage in a range of industries.

A controlled deposition of a liquid polymer jet that quickly hardens into a fibre using EW technology involves the use of an electric field that is specifically connected with AM technology. 

NovaSpider is a leading mobiliser of the equipment in the market. The latest integration has been the use of solvents; The Melt electrospinning uses electricity to create fibrous structures from polymer melts.

Melt electrospinning writing (MEW), which uses moving collectors, enables 3D printing with incredibly thin fibres. These scaffolds made of nanomaterials are utilised to renew and repair tissue. We are able to create conductive, biocompatible, and bio absorbable structures that, among other things, direct and promote the development of bone, muscle, and neural tissue.

Bio Fabrication Group is part of the component manufacture trending companies in the current industry. By combining electrospinning and 3D printing, the bio fabrication method precisely deposits molten polymer into fibres with widths in the micrometre range using high voltage.

With previously unheard-of resolution, fibres are created and piled on top of one another, opening the door to the construction of intricate, multiscale structures. They want to create so-called metamaterials, whose properties are determined by their design.

COMPANIES PROFILED

• Nova Spider
• Bio Fabrication Group
• Spraybase
• Medica Inc.
• Hyrel 3D
• Axolotl Bio systems
• EPFL