PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Mech. Eng.
Sec. Solid and Structural Mechanics
Volume 11 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmech.2025.1655463
This article is part of the Research TopicReinforcement of Nanomaterials in Composite StructuresView all articles
Nanomaterial: a neglected bioink ingredient for 3D printing of biomineralization-enabled structural composites
Provisionally accepted
- Texas A and M University, College Station, United States
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In the past decades, biomineralization-enabled structural composites with self-healing and self-growing properties have attracted significant amounts of attention from the research community. In this perspective article, we recapitulate the state of the art of biomineralizationenabled structural composites, its recent advances into 3D printing, and point out that nanomaterials may possess distinctive advantages to be included in the bioink, due to their remarkable effect on mechanical reinforcement and positive influence on microbial growth and biomineralization efficiency.
Keywords: Biomineralization, Bioprinting, nanomaterial, Bioink, Porous scaffold
Received: 27 Jun 2025; Accepted: 12 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Jin, Naraghi and Wu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Congrui Jin, Texas A and M University, College Station, United States
Chenglin Wu, Texas A and M University, College Station, United States
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