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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2019 Jan 19;95:176–187. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2019.01.041

Table 1.

Yield stresses of different printable bioinks.

Material Nozzle diameter (mm) Yield stress (Pa) Notes Author

Pluronic F127/diacrylated Pluronic F127 (PF17/AC3) 0.30 151 No other printable or non-printable formulations. Muller et al. [17]
25 wt% poloxamer 407 0.25 227 15, 20, and 30 wt% formulations were not printable. Paxton et al. [21]
8% alginate/1% CaCl2 0.25 166 No other alginate/CaCl2 formulations were tested. Paxton et al. [21]
3–10% methacrylated gelatin/ 0–0.5% gellan gum (gelMA/gellan) 0.34 0.13–48.2 3/0.5%, 10/0%, and 10/0.5% gelMA/gellan were all printable.
3/0.2% was not printable, but had a yield stress of 0.22 Pa.
Mouser et al. [18]
20–30% polaxamer/1–4% poly(ethylene glycol) (px/PEG) 0.34 ~125 to 425 All formulations were printable. Ribeiro et al. [19]
2.5% kappa-carrageenan/4–6% nanosilicates (κCA/nSi) 0.34 4.2–33 Pure κCA had the highest yield stress and was not printable. At least 4% nSi were needed for printability. Wilson et al. [22]