Diamond-based materials for biomedical applications /

"Carbon is light-weight, strong, conductive and able to mimic natural materials within the body, making it ideal for many uses within biomedicine. Consequently a great deal of research and funding is being put into this interesting material with a view to increasing the variety of medical appli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Narayan, Roger (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Woodhead Publishing, 2013.
Colección:Woodhead Publishing series in biomaterials ; no. 55.
Temas:
Nanostructured materials.
Carbon.
Nanostructures > therapeutic use
Carbon > therapeutic use
Nanostructures
Carbon
Nanomat�eriaux.
Carbone.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Reference.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction to diamond based materials for medical applications
  • Introduction to medical applications of diamond particles and surfaces
  • Functionalisation of diamond surfaces for medical applications
  • Biotribology and biological behaviour of nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) coatings for medical
  • Biomedical applications of diamond based materials
  • Nanostructured diamond coatings for orthopaedic applications
  • Ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films for ophthalmological applications
  • Ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) for neural applications
  • Nanodiamonds for drug delivery systems
  • Diamond nucleation and seeding techniques for tissue regeneration
  • Diamond materials for microfluidic devices.

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