caa a22 4500 605479674 CHVBK 20210128100411.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10544-015-9960-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10544-015-9960-y 3D silicone rubber interfaces for individually tailored implants [Elektronische Daten] [Jan Stieghorst, Alexandra Bondarenkova, Niklas Burblies, Peter Behrens, Theodor Doll] For the fabrication of customized silicone rubber based implants, e.g. cochlear implants or electrocortical grid arrays, it is required to develop high speed curing systems, which vulcanize the silicone rubber before it runs due to a heating related viscosity drop. Therefore, we present an infrared radiation based cross-linking approach for the 3D-printing of silicone rubber bulk and carbon nanotube based silicone rubber electrode materials. Composite materials were cured in less than 120s and material interfaces were evaluated with scanning electron microscopy. Furthermore, curing related changes in the mechanical and cell-biological behaviour were investigated with tensile and WST-1 cell biocompatibility tests. The infrared absorption properties of the silicone rubber materials were analysed with fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in transmission and attenuated total reflection mode. The heat flux was calculated by using the FTIR data, emissivity data from the infrared source manufacturer and the geometrical view factor of the system. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Infrared curing nationallicence 3D printing nationallicence Customized neural implants nationallicence Silicone rubber printing nationallicence Stieghorst Jan Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut Bondarenkova Alexandra Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut Burblies Niklas Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut Behrens Peter Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut Doll Theodor Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut Biomedical Microdevices Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 17/3(2015-06-01), 1-10 1387-2176 17:3<1 2015 17 10544 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10544-015-9960-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10544-015-9960-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stieghorst Jan Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bondarenkova Alexandra Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Burblies Niklas Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Behrens Peter Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Doll Theodor Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all, Hannover, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biomedical Microdevices Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 17/3(2015-06-01), 1-10 1387-2176 17:3<1 2015 17 10544