3D‐Printing to Mitigate COVID‐19 Pandemic

Abstract

3D-printing technology provided numerous contributions to the health sector during the recent Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Several of the 3D-printed medical devices like personal protection equipment (PPE), ventilators, specimen collectors, safety accessories, and isolation wards/ chambers were printed in a short time as demands for these were rising significantly. The review discusses some of these contributions of 3D-printing that helped to protect several lives during this health emergency. By enlisting some of the significant benefits of using the 3D-printing technique during an emergency over other conventional methods, this review claims that the former opens enormous possibilities in times of serious shortage of supply and exceeding demands. This review acknowledges the collaborative approaches adopted by individuals, entrepreneurs, academicians, and companies that helped in forming a global network for delivering 3D-printed medical/non-medical components, when other supply chains were disrupted. The collaboration of the 3D-printing technology with the global health community unfolds new and significant opportunities in the future.

3D-Printed COVID-19 immunosensors with electronic readout

“…In the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, 3D printing technology has been placed at the forefront in the fight against this health crisis, enabling a decentralized and tailored fabrication of on-demand substrates —from personal protection equipment to medical devices and isolation wards—, which can be readily available in a matter of minutes [22] , [23] , [24] , [25] . However, to the best of our knowledge, no references about the use of 3D printing technology for the development of COVID-19 sensing systems have been reported yet.…”

3d Printing and Its Role During the Covid Pandemic

“…As 3D printing or additive manufacturing has provided an easy and rapid way of prototyping 3D structures from different types of materials, it has attained huge attention. This approach of 3D printing is prominent for its way of flexibility, waste reduction, mass customization, constructability, and architectural manufacturing [9][10][11].…”

Plasmonic-magnetic nanorobots for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection through electronic readout

“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a devastating impact on global society, with more than 175 million confirmed cases and 3.7 million deaths over 220 countries (as of June 08, 2021, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) report) [19] . Although the spread of the virus seemed to be mitigated through quick adaptation of communities to the “new normal”, such as social distancing, regular sanitization, quarantining [ 20 , 21 ], there are still serious difficulties in epidemic control with the silent transmission of asymptomatic infections [22] , and the emergence and spread of multiple variants [23] . Under these difficulties, continuous diagnostic tests are mandated until the end of the pandemic by achieving herd immunity with an effective vaccine distribution.…”