MIT 3D-prints electrospray nozzles for three-layer drug delivery
MIT boffins take electrospray nozzles out of the cleanroom, into the 3D printer
Who said sub-millimeter, three-layer science juice had to be expensive to squirt?
The process for producing triple-layer drug-delivery particles and materials for tissue regeneration could get easier, thanks to a new advance in creating the electrospray nozzles used to make them. A team of MIT researchers has now used a 3D resin printer to output tiny electrospray nozzles without the expensive cleanrooms they normally require.
A team led by MIT principal research scientist Dr. Luis Fernando Velásquez-García detailed its work developing tiny arrays of triaxial electrospray emitters in a recent paper. Before jumping into what they actually did, it might be worth explaining exactly what we’re talking about and why it’s such a potential breakthrough.
Electrospraying is a process that relies on tiny nozzles - we’re talking fractions of a millimeter, here - that are subjected...
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