Fig. 2: Scheme of the LED photo-crosslinking and 3D-printing section of the microfluidic/3D-printing
device. The droplet train is transferred from the chip microchannel into a microtubing in a straight section
with nearly identical inner channel and inner microtubing diameter. Further downstream, the microtubing
passes an LED-section for fast photo cross-linking to generate the microgels. This section is contained in
an aluminum encasing to avoid premature crosslinking of polymer precursor in upstream channel sections
by stray light. Subsequently, the microtubing is integrated into a 3D-printhead, where the microgels are
jammed into a filament that is directly 3D-printed into the scaffold.