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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Mater Res A. 2014 Dec;102(12):4326–4335. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.35108

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Photograph of BariCUDA extruder with schematic representations of heating and PCL components superimposed. Nitrogen gas is used to pneumatically control extrusion through a syringe-based extruder. Nichrome wire acts as a heating element around the entire surface of the syringe and melts the PCL pellets for facilitated extrusion. No solvents are needed for polymer extrusion in this system.