Image: Ángela García de la Camacha Díaz
The arrival of spring always brings joy, colour, and life. April reminds us that after the cold winter, a new chapter begins… One filled with fruits ready to be harvested. And that is exactly what we have seen in the lab.
In this Image of the Month, we can observe the “fruits” of the work carried out over these winter months. During this time, we have been developing a new material, produced for the first time using 3D printing. It is a composite material made of a polymer matrix (PLA) reinforced with a continuous metallic wire (Mg). By combining PLA and Mg, we can tune the mechanical properties and degradation behaviour of the PLA/Mg composite. This makes the material especially promising for the design of scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration, within the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
However, before any material can truly be called “bio”, it must pass strict biocompatibility and cytocompatibility tests. Over these long winter months, we have focused on evaluating the cytocompatibility of this newly developed 3D-printed material. In one of these studies, we explored the interaction between cells and the material by directly seeding MC3T3 preosteoblast cells onto the PLA/Mg surface for 24 hours.
To our delight, what we observed in the SEM image was not only the result of months of work, but also the arrival of our own scientific spring.
And as you know…
spring always brings flowers 🌷
PhD Researcher
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BCD research group has recently published a new publication in Small Structures! Congrats to our colleagues, Monsur, Jesus,and Monica! Title: Pyrolytic Carbon Microlattices from 3D-Printed Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate and their In Vitro
BCD research group has recently published a new publication in Biomaterials Science! Congrats to our colleagues, Jesus, Monsur and Monica! Title: Evaluation of laser-induced graphene for skeletal muscle tissue engineering applicationsAuthors: Jesús
BCD research group has recently published a new publication in Next Materials! Congrats to our colleagues, Yuyao and Monica! Title: 3D-printed biodegradable polymer scaffolds for tissue engineering: An overview, current
BCD research group has recently published a new publication in Small Structures! Congrats to our colleagues, Monsur, Jesus,and Monica! Title: Pyrolytic Carbon Microlattices from 3D-Printed Polyethylene Glycol Diacrylate and their In Vitro
BCD research group has recently published a new publication in Biomaterials Science! Congrats to our colleagues, Jesus, Monsur and Monica! Title: Evaluation of laser-induced graphene for skeletal muscle tissue engineering applicationsAuthors: Jesús
BCD research group has recently published a new publication in Next Materials! Congrats to our colleagues, Yuyao and Monica! Title: 3D-printed biodegradable polymer scaffolds for tissue engineering: An overview, current
Jesús Ordoño, Carlos Aguilar-Vega, Natalia Téllez-Fouz, Guillermo Domínguez, Carmelo de-María, Andrés Díaz-Lantada, Jon Molina-Aldareguia, Mónica Echeverry-Rendón, Biomaterials Advances, 2026
Vanessa Hernández-Montes, J.F. Santa-Marín, R. Buitrago-Sierra, Javier Llorca, Mónica Echeverry-Rendón, Surfaces and Interfaces, 2025
Yu-Yao Liu, Marko Dobricic, Claudio Intini, Fergal J. O’Brien, Javier LLorca, Mónica Echeverry-Rendón, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2025
