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Van Vlierberghe, Sandra
Ghent University
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- 2024Tailorable acrylate-endcapped urethane-based polymers for precision in digital light processing : versatile solutions for biomedical applicationscitations
- 2024Toward in vitro vascular wall models : digital light processing of acrylate‐edcapped urethane‐based polymers into tubular constructs
- 2023Printability evaluation of UV-curable aqueous laponite/urethane-based PEG inkscitations
- 2023Volumetric printing of thiol‐ene photo‐cross‐linkable poly(ε‐caprolactone) : a tunable material platform serving biomedical applicationscitations
- 2023Solid‐state crosslinkable, shape‐memory polyesters serving tissue engineeringcitations
- 2023Microstructured Optical Fiber Made From Biodegradable and Biocompatible Poly(D,L-Lactic Acid) (PDLLA)citations
- 2023Photo-crosslinkable biodegradable polymer coating to control fertilizer releasecitations
- 2022Environmental and economic sustainability of crack mitigation in reinforced concrete with SuperAbsorbent polymers (SAPs)citations
- 2021Increasing the Microfabrication Performance of Synthetic Hydrogel Precursors through Molecular Designcitations
- 2021Increasing the microfabrication performance of synthetic hydrogel precursors through molecular designcitations
- 2021Atomic layer deposition on polymer thin films : on the role of precursor infiltration and reactivitycitations
- 2020Laser welding of carbon fibre filled polytetra fluoroethylenecitations
- 2020The contribution of elastic wave NDT to the characterization of modern cementitious mediacitations
- 2019Amorphous random copolymers of lacOCA and manOCA for the design of biodegradable polyesters with tuneable propertiescitations
- 2019Amorphous random copolymers of lacOCA and manOCA for the design of biodegradable polyesters with tuneable propertiescitations
- 2019Poly(D, L-Lactic Acid) (PDLLA) Biodegradable and Biocompatible Polymer Optical Fibercitations
- 2018Clear to clear laser welding for joining thermoplastic polymers: A comparative study based on physicochemical characterizationcitations
- 2018Ultrathin Poly-DL-Lactic Membranes for Corneal Endothelial Transplantation
- 2018Poly(methyl methacrylate) capsules as an alternative to the ‘’proof-of-concept’’ glass capsules used in self-healing concrete
- 2018Localized optical- quality doping of graphene on silicon waveguides through a TFSA- containing polymer matrixcitations
- 2018Ring opening copolymerisation of lactide and mandelide for the development of environmentally degradable polyesters with controllable glass transition temperaturescitations
- 2017Combinatory approach of methacrylated alginate and acid monomers for concrete applicationscitations
- 2017Characterization of methacrylated polysaccharides in combination with amine-based monomers for application in mortarcitations
- 2016Indirect solid freeform fabrication of an initiator-free photocrosslinkable hydrogel precursor for the creation of porous scaffoldscitations
- 2016Deep proton writing with 12 MeV protons for rapid prototyping of microstructures in polymethylmethacrylatecitations
- 2016Chapter 21 – Biodegradable polyesters: from monomer to application
- 2011Gelatin functionalization of biomaterial surfaces : strategies for immobilization and visualizationcitations
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Microstructured Optical Fiber Made From Biodegradable and Biocompatible Poly(D,L-Lactic Acid) (PDLLA)
Abstract
We have fabricated and characterized microstructured biodegradable and biocompatible polymer optical fibers using commercially available poly(D,L-lactic acid) (PDLLA). We first report on the preparation of the preforms by means of a novel technique based on transfer molding and on the fiber manufacturing using a regular heat-drawing process. We address the influence of the polymer processing on the decrease of the molar mass of PDLLA following the preform fabrication and the fiber optic drawing process. We investigate the in vitro degradation of the fabricated fibers in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) that reveals 21, 25 and 43% molar mass loss over a period of 105 days for fibers with diameters of 400, 200 and 100 mu m, respectively. Cutback measurements return an attenuation coefficient as low as 0.065 dB/cm at 898 nm for a microstructured fiber with a diameter of 219 +/- 27 mu m. Due to immersion in PBS at 37 degrees C, the optical loss increases by 0.4 dB/cm at 950 nm after 6 h and by 0.8 dB/cm after 17 h.