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8. March 2016

Implants out of the 3-D printer

LZH | Additive manufacturing processes at the micro-scale open the doors for new approaches in medical technology to produce implants. The Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) develops processes for the manufacturing of platinum, nickel-titanium (NiTi) and stainless steel.

For this purpose, the scientists of the Surface Technology Group used a special 3-D printing method – the Selective Laser Micro-Melting (SLµM). By means of partly customized systems, they succeeded in coating electrodes for cardiac pacemakers with platinum, and manufactured three-dimensional lattice structures from NiTi and stent prototypes from stainless steel and NiTi.
SLµM makes it possible to adapt stents and implants individually to the patient’s requirements, and can open up new perspectives in the field of medical technology in the future.
The research works were carried out as a subproject of the joint project “REMEDIS” in cooperation with the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rostock. REMEDIS was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

by Ronny Hagemann und Patricia Fischer

At a glance

  • Selective Laser Micro-Melting allows for individual implants
  • Established processes for nickel-titanium, platinum-iridium and stainless steel
  • Applications are cardiac pacemakers, shape changing implants and stents
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Fig. 1: Super elastic micro-stent made of the shape-memory alloy nickel-titanium. (Photo: LZH)
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Fig. 2: Sketch of the Selective Laser Micro-Melting (SLµM) system developed by the LZH. (Illustration: LZH)
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Fig. 3: Additive manufacturing of implants: bifurcated micro-stent made of stainless steel. (Photo: LZH)
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Fig. 4: This electrode head was coated with a platinum-iridium alloy. (Photo: LZH)
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