Witold Sokolowski,Annick Metcalfe,Shunichi Hayashi, et al.Medical applications of shape memory polymers. 3rd International symposium on advanced biomaterials and biomechanics . 2005Sokolowski W,Metcalfe A,Hayashi S.Medical applications of shape memory polymers. 3rd International symposium on advanced ...
SHAPE memory polymersBIOMATERIALSBIOMEDICAL materialsMINIMALLY invasive proceduresMEDICAL equipmentThe research provides a concise overview of numerous biomedical and biomechanics uses for polymerbased materials in medical applications. Polymer-based materials are used to repair or enhance the functiona...
devices. Therefore, the diversity of material selection facilitates the researches on triboelectric based healthcare applications [171–173]. Implantable PENGs Natural mechanical motions of organs can be converted into electrical energy for poweringimplantable devices[156,158,161,163,164,166,174–177]....
nanosheets for advanced medical and health-care applications Toshinori Fujie1,2 Artificial replication of the biomembrane systems in living organisms is attractive for the development of advanced functional materials but remains challenging for materials science because of the intricate function of these ...
Supertough Shape Memory Bionanocomposites of Thermoplastic Vulcanizates Based on PLA- EVA and Cellulose Nanocrystal Polylactic acid (PLA) is the main candidate among the synthetic polymers for food packaging application. However, its poor processing and mechanical perfor... Reyhaneh Aminyan,Hamid Garmabi...
Medical applications of shape memory alloys Shape memory alloys (SMA) are materials that have the ability to return to a former shape when subjected to an appropriate thermomechanical procedure. Pseu... LG Machado,MA Savi - 《Brazilian Journal of Medical & Biological Research》 被引量: 758发表...
The present invention relates to novel materials particularly useful for ophthalmic applications and methods for making and using the same. More particularly, the present invention
The preferred materials of the invention are thermoplastic polymers. Preferably the materials have an excellent ability to store orientations, and have high strength and are flexible. Ideally the material is of the polyamide, polyurethane, polyether-amide or polyester families. Within these families ...
Additionally, to ensure that excessive tissue ingrowth into or about the housings and/or flexible linkages of the medical implant does not prevent the medical implant from functioning as intended, the surfaces of the housings and/or the flexible linkages may be coated with one or more polymers, ...
Polymeric materials may be used for forming the medical device in the present invention include without limitation isobutylene-based polymers, polystyrene-based polymers, polyacrylates, and polyacrylate derivatives, vinyl acetate-based polymers and its copolymers, polyurethane and its copolymers, silicone an...