Open access peer-reviewed Edited Volume

Biomedical Engineering, Trends in Materials Science

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Anthony Laskovski
Anthony Laskovski

University of Newcastle Australia,
Australia

Published08 January 2011

Doi10.5772/992

ISBN978-953-307-513-6

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-4533-2

Copyright year2011

Number of pages576

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Open access  chapters

1. Novel Chitin and Chitosan Materials in Wound Dressing

By R. Jayakumar, M. Prabaharan, P. T. Sudheesh Kumar, S. V. Nair, T. Furuike and H. Tamura

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2. Influence of the Chemical Structure and Physicochemical Properties of Chitin- and Chitosan-Based Materials on Their Biomedical Activity

By Jolanta Kumirska, Mirko X. Weinhold, Małgorzata Czerwicka, Zbigniew Kaczyński, Anna Bychowska, Krzysztof Brzozowski,Jorg Thöming, and Piotr Stepnowski

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4. Development of a Ceramic-Controlled Piezoelectric of Single Disc for Biomedical Applications

By E. Suaste Gómez, J. J. A. Flores Cuautle and C. O. González Morán

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5. Cold Plasma Techniques for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Engineering

By Yasushi Sasai, Shin-ichi Kondo, Yukinori Yamauchi and Masayuki Kuzuya

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6. Basics and Biomedical Applications of Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD)

By Nikita Bibinov, Priyadarshini Rajasekaran, Philipp Mertmann Dirk Wandke, Wolfgang Viöl and Peter Awakowicz

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11. Ti-Based Bulk Metallic Glasses for Biomedical Applications

By Fengxiang Qin, Zhenhua Dan, Xinmin Wang, Guoqiang Xie and Akihisa Inoue

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12. Surface Treatments of Nearly Equiatomic NiTi Alloy (Nitinol) for Surgical Implants

By Dixon T. K. Kwok, Martin Schulz, Tao Hu, Chenglin Chu and Paul Chu

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15. Synthesis, Characterization, Toxicity of Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications

By A. K. Pradhan, K. Zhang, M. Bahoura, J. Pradhan, P. Ravichandran, R. Gopikrishnan and G. T. Ramesh

4,234
16. Nanopatterned Surfaces for Biomedical Applications

By Rebecca McMurray, Matthew J Dalby and Nikolaj Gadegaard

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19. Life Assessment of a Balloon-Expandable Stent for Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis

By Hao-Ming Hsiao, Michael D. Dake, Santosh Prabhu, Mahmood K. Razavi, Ying-Chih Liao and Alexander Nikanorov

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