Fabrication and Validation by Micromilling for Bioreactor Prototyping

Abstract:

Bioreactor systems for cultivating cells in Life Sciences have been widely used for decades. Recently, there is a trend towards miniaturization, disposables and even micro platforms that fulfill increasing demands strongly aiming for production and testing of novel pharmaceutical products. Miniaturized bioreactors allow low power consumption, portability and reduced space requirements and utilize smaller volumes of reagents and samples [1,2]. A recursive strategy is necessary for optimizing the design and the manufacture of such miniaturized bioreactors. For the fabrication of these prototypes utilized micro-milling. Micro milling is a mechanical process which is commonly applied to create micro-structures in metals, e.g. aluminum and steel, or polymers, e.g. poly carbonate substrates. The structures and geometries are generated by utilizing computer aided design. By means of computer-aided manufacturing, the machining operations are implemented and then transferred to the machine tool. The machine tool moves the cutting tools with certain speeds, feeds and traverse ranges to the substrate. Micro milling has the advantage that the materials are generally not degraded by chemical substances, heating procedures or electromagnetic radiation.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 941)
• Pages: 2448-2453
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.941.2448
• Online since: December 2018
• Authors: Andrea Böhme*, Felix Schütze, Sabine Sauer, Andreas H. Foitzik
• Keywords: CAD/CAM, Design, Fabrication, Micro-Milling, Miniaturized Bioreactor

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