Abstract
The fusion of functional nanomaterial in additive manufacturing (AM) has opened a new horizon in the construction of the medical devices and systems with optimized properties and multifunctionalities. The development of functionalized nanomaterials via AM has extended to the biomedical applications such as biomolecular sensing, biological imaging, drug delivery, and disease therapy. The present chapter discussed the various kinds of nanomaterials and their functionalization strategies. The metallic, ceramic, carbon, and polymer-based nanomaterials are functionalizations by the strategies named as covalent and noncovalent. These functionalization strategies have created the nanomaterials with enhanced and customized properties for specific biomedical applications. The developments of the functionalized nanomaterials using 3D printing have been discussed in this chapter. The observations of the different investigation showed that various medical systems like a bone scaffold, bionic organs, biosensors, bioimaging, surgical tools, and diagnostic devices had been successfully produced. Theses fabricated devices represented the promising result under in vitro as well as in vivo environments.
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