UPC: 9780128092637 | Biomedical Engineering: Introductory Biomaterials: An Overview of Key Concepts (Paperback)

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Introductory Biomaterials enables undergraduate students in Biomedical Chemical Materials and other relevant Engineering disciplines to become familiar with the key concepts of Biomaterials principles: biocompatibility structure-property-applications relationships mechanical response of natural tissues and cellular pathways for tissue-material ingrowth. Written in a clear concise manner that weds theory with applications this book helps students to understand the often intricate relationships between materials the implant devices that are made from them and how the human body reacts to them. The book includes such concepts as requirements for metals alloys and ceramic materials to be used in load bearing implants (corrosion concepts stress shielding mechanical properties composition) what properties of polymers impact their use in medicine (leaching and swelling creep and stress relaxation); the tissue response to biomaterials concepts related to drug delivery applications (polymer degradation encapsulation) and tissue engineering (scaffold porosity diffusion of nutrients mechanical properties).