Beginning Phase

The beginning portion of this project has been focused on characterizing the collagen-based material. Alongside my lab partner, we designed a series of experiments to characterize the properties of the collagen including varied infill density, varied incubation periods, and varied incubation periods with the best infill density performance.

To do our characterization, we bio-printed the samples and performed a compression test, where the data collected was inputted into the Python program we created for analyzing the data.

Next Phase

We are now in the process of attempting to create a gradient interface within the collagen samples that mimic the ones present in ligaments.

3D Bioprinted Ligament