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Mentor: Mark Skylar-Scott (Bioengineering)

“Design and Testing of a Variable Diameter 3D Printer Nozzle”

3D printing involves a key trade-off between print resolution and print speed: printing a part with twice the resolution increases print time approximately eight-fold. 3D printing using light is especially well-suited to creating high resolution tissues rapidly, but it is critically limited in material biocompatibility. This summer, Elsa will develop a new light-sensitive enzyme that rapidly generates high-resolution natural and biocompatible fibrin biomaterials upon exposure to a projected pattern of light. This would unlock the ability to print highly functional and high resolution tissues at scale.