3D printing technology enables dissolvable medical fasteners

摘要

Engineers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) in the US have demonstrated the use of metal 3D printingtechnology to produce dissolvable medical fasteners.Led by Dr Michael Sealy, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering at UNL, the group, which attended September's IMTS event in Chicago, revealed that it has been using a LENS (laser engineered net shaping) additive manufacturing system supplied by Optomec to produce a range of dissolvable magnesium components.