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Title: 3D bioprinting of diatom‐laden living materials for water quality assessment
Abstract: Diatoms have long been used as living biological indicators for the assessment of water quality in lakes and rivers worldwide. While this approach benefits from the great diversity of these unicellular algae, established protocols are time-consuming and require specialized equipment. Here, this work 3D prints diatom-laden hydrogels that can be used as a simple multiplex bio-indicator for water assessment. The hydrogel-based living materials are created with the help of a desktop extrusion-based printer using a suspension of diatoms, cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) and alginate as bio-ink constituents. Rheology and mechanical tests are employed to establish optimum bio-ink formulations, whereas cell culture experiments are utilized to evaluate the proliferation of the entrapped diatoms in the presence of selected water contaminants. Bioprinting of diatom-laden hydrogels is shown to be an enticing approach to generate living materials that can serve as low-cost bio-indicators for water quality assessment.
WebOfScience code: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:001062318900001
Bibliographic citation: Boons, R.; Siqueira, G.; Grieder, F.; Kim, S.-J.; Giovanoli, D.; Zimmermann, T.; Nyström, G.; Coulter, F.B.; Studart, A.R. (2023). 3D bioprinting of diatom‐laden living materials for water quality assessment. Small 19(50): 2300771. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202300771
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