Projects
Lab Focus
Emerging manufacturing processes are at the heart of the Dalton Lab, to produce advanced biomedical materials that can be translated to an application. We specialize in melt electrowriting, but also hybridize other advanced processes to create new objects with distinct properties that outperform existing gold standards. In particular, we work with 3D printing technologies towards full digitization of biomaterials, allowing rapid research cycles and innovative biomedical products.
Accessibility
Part of our work focuses on improving accessibility of melt electrowriting systems, making them more available as a research tool across disciplines. We built the “MEWron” to improve the usability, accessibility, and capabilities of this technology increases adoption and helps move high resolution additive fabrication techniques further.
Pushing the Limits of Fabrication
Expect anything to happen in this space! There are projects in the lab which focus on step-changes in manufacturing capabilities. Pushing the envelope of fabrication includes modulating mechanics, materials, and printing conditions to selectively tailor scaffold properties and provide unique solutions to a variety of engineering challenges. We want to transform expectations of what’s possible.
Applications
We fabricate new materials, so that they can be applied to a spectrum of applications. We focus on biomedical materials but also push the boundaries for mechanical, morphological, and chemical properties of high-performance environments. Hybrid fabrication, the use of multiple fabrication technologies to minimize deficiencies of each individual technology, is utilized to achieve specific mechanics and morphologies designed to match tissue properties.