Minimise thermo-mechanical batch variations when processing medical grade lactide based copolymers in additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing is suitable for producing complex geometries; however, variation in thermo-mechanical properties is observed during one batch cycle when degradable aliphatic polyesters are used in melt extrusion-based methods. This is one important reason for why additive manufacturing has not yet been fully utilised to produce degradable medical implants. Herein, the internal variation has been minimised during one batch cycle by...