The current leather making process poses a detriment to society given the vast amount of waste and excess harmful chemicals that are produced from the process. The goal of this project is to transform the current process and diminish the negative effects associated with it. The solution is to grow leather within a laboratory through the establishment of a device capable of cell seeding on a plant scaffold while additionally allowing for the perfusion of media. The design team aimed to understand the dynamics of growing bovine dermis and its mechanical properties well enough to produce a device capable of growing a sheet of lab-grown leather. The results of the device were compared to the current leather making process.

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Creator

• Eves, Alexa S.
• Morton, Samantha K.
• Premo, Julia N.
• Webb, Alyssa
• White, Leah A.

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Innovation
• Sustainability
• Environment

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042721-140608
• 19046

Mot-clé

• environmental impact
• plant scaffolds
• decellularization
• leather
• bovine dermal fibroblast
• spinach leaves

Advisor

• Pins, George D
• Gaudette, Glenn R.

Year

• 2021

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production

Date created

• 2021-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Dernière modification

• 2021-08-29