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International Journal of Bioprinting Guide about the effects of sterilization on 3D-printed materials for medicine

Figure 10. Tissue-material comparison in terms of the elastic modulus.

Figure 11. Surface comparison showing the differences in the distances between the points of each of the tensiles.

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acceptable for its use in surgical planning prototypes. This Popescu et al. applied HPO vapor and low-
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was also confirmed by Oth et al. that HPO is regarded temperature gas plasma sterilization techniques on the
as a better alternative than the conventional heat-based 3D-printed ABS samples. Based on the obtained results,
sterilization processes such as autoclave sterilization. This there was no negative effect on the 3D-printed ABS samples
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is also confirmed by Told et al. who demonstrated the after the above-mentioned sterilization methods have been
impact of heat-based sterilization and thus recommended used. These results are in line with the work of Bosc et al.
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low-temperature sterilization. who used Sterrad sterilization process (a combination

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