{"Page URL":["https://www.appropedia.org/TissueDB/Materials/Polyvinyl_Alcohol"],"Page authors":["Arturopelayo"],"Page description":["Material page for polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) in surgical simulation. It describes the water-soluble FDM support filament that is dissolved away after printing — the only form used in a build in this database. The freeze-thaw cryogel and the hydrogel tubing are named here and characterised from the literature, but no simulator in this database is built with them."],"Page image":["File:Sample of Polyvinyl alcohol.jpg"],"Page keywords":["PVA","polyvinyl alcohol","PVA cryogel","PVA hydrogel","freeze-thaw gel","tissue-mimicking phantom","ultrasound phantom","elastography","dissolvable support","water-soluble filament","3D printing support","FDM support material","surgical simulation","TissueDB"],"Page language":["en"],"Page parent":["TissueDB/Materials"],"Page root":["TissueDB"],"Page title":["TissueDB/Materials/Polyvinyl Alcohol"],"Page views":[26],"Page year":["Thursday, 01-Jan-26 00:00:00 UTC"],"Modification date":["Tuesday, 11-Aug-26 23:20:47 UTC"]}