Nanostructured Pluronic hydrogels as bioinks for 3D bioprinting

Bioprinting allows the precise positioning of biologically relevant materials in 3D, which more resembles the native tissue in our body than current homogenous, bulk approaches.  In this paper researchers from the Zenobi-Wong group present an approach called nanostructuring to increase the biocompatibility of Pluronic gels at printable concentrations. Their nanostructuring approach enables Pluronic hydrogels to have the desired set of properties in all stages of the bioprinting process.