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Fused filament fabricated PEEK based polymer composites for orthopaedic implants: a review

  • Sathishkumar Sankar ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Jawahar Paulraj ORCID logo and Prasun Chakraborti ORCID logo
Published/Copyright: October 23, 2023
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Abstract

Additive manufacturing has become a cutting-edge technique to produce biomaterials for various clinical applications. Recent investigations have shown their significance and highlighted their future requirements. Many additive manufacturing technologies are mostly related to manufacturing polyether ether ketone (PEEK) based implants. Among them, fused filament fabrication (FFF) or fused deposition modelling (FDM) is the preferred method. Specifically, FFF builds complex scaffolds for tissue engineering and customized implants, which are not achievable with traditional fabrication methods. PEEK is a rigid, tissue-compatible, lightweight polymer with good wear characteristics and a long implant life. In general, PEEK has many valuable properties and the potential to solve many medical problems, especially orthopaedic implantation. This paper provides a brief study that gives an overview of PEEK-based biomaterials for FFF-based orthopaedic procedures, materials evolution, recent advancements, and the current research progress is also addressed systematically.


Corresponding author: Sathishkumar Sankar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India, E-mail:

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to send their gratitude to National Institute of Technology, Agartala (MHRD – Govt of India) for given constant support to prepare this detailed manuscript.

  1. Research ethics: Not applicable.

  2. Author contributions: Sathishkumar Sankar: Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Formal analysis, Resources, Investigation, Data curation, Writing–original draft, Visualization. Jawahar Paulraj: Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Resources. Prasun Chakraborti: Validation, Project administration.

  3. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing for financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

  4. Research funding: None declared.

  5. Data availability: Not applicable.

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Received: 2022-05-12
Accepted: 2023-01-05
Published Online: 2023-10-23
Published in Print: 2023-10-27

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