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A valuable tool for strategic planning and market analysis within the innovative biomedical materials industry. 

A Profile of the Biomedical Materials Industry: The Search for Innovation is a new report from International Newsletters, which examines how 50 biomedical materials...

This textbook is a scientific introduction to the study, engineering and applications of medical textiles. It moves systematically from the fundamentals of textile materials and their fabrication through biocompatibility and biodegradability to the applications of textiles in healthcare, ranging...

This book focuses on the coupling of plastics and biocides, with particular concentration on natural biocides and the nanofabrication of biocides, and of their final properties and activity. Chapters address the key technologies employed to impart antimicrobial behavior to polymers,...

This book focuses on biodegradable polymers that are already in clinical use or under clinical development. Synthetic and natural polymers will be included. This excludes polymers that have been investigated and did not reach clinical development.

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-Reviews the latest developments in biomaterials and investigates how they can be used to improve the quality and efficiency of artificial organs

-Discusses commodity biomaterials including membranes for oxygenators and cobalt chromium alloys for hips and knees and polymeric joint-bearing...

Biomaterials Science (2nd Edition) An Introduction to Materials in Medicine covers the broad spectrum of biomaterial compositions including polymers, metals, ceramics, glasses, carbons, natural materials, and composites.

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Maintaining quality of life in an ageing population is one of the great challenges of the 21st Century. This book and collection of illustrated CD lectures summarises how this challenge is being met by multi-disciplinary developments of specialty biomaterials, devices, artificial organs and...

Biocomposites are widely used in the medical industry to repair and restore bone, tooth, cartilage skin and other tissues. Biomedical composites, provides a thorough review of the current status, recent progress and future trends in composites for biomedical applications.

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This volume fully provides a unique update by a team of technical authorities in the fast growing area of designer polymers, featuring predictable half-lives in the biological environment, as biomedical devices or drug...

Given the rapid development and use of biomaterials, it is becoming increasingly important to understand the structure, processing and properties of biomedical polymers and their medical applications. With its distinguished editor and team of international contributors, Biomedical Polymers...

Compatibility of Pharmaceutical Products and Contact Materials helps pharmaceutical, toxicology, analytical, and regulatory affairs professionals assess the safety of leachable and extractable chemicals associated with drug product packaging, manufacturing systems, and devices. The most...

- comprehensively examines the performance of both bioresorbable and non-bioresorbable medical polymers

- discusses the processing of bioresorbable and other polymers for medical applications, before reviewing the degradation of bioresorbable medical polymers

- explores the...

This book covers the latest advances of polymer-inorganic nanocomposites and focuses particularly on high-added-value applications in fields ranging from electronics, optics, magnetism to biotechnology. Traditionally, organic-inorganic composites are considered in terms of mechanical properties...

-Comprehensively examines the materials, properties and biomedical applications of injectable materials, as well as novel developments in the technology

-reviews the design of injectable biomaterials as well as their rheological properties and the mechanical properties of injectable polymers and...

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This volume details current developments in industry practices and standards relating to medical device packaging. This edition offers entirely new as well as revised chapters on packaging materials, package validation and methods and integrity testing, bar-coding technology, environmentally sound...

Complete proceedings of AMI's Medical Device Polymers 2011 conference, held in June 2011 in Cologne, including printed copy and CD.

This event provided a forum to debate the latest developments in medical devices, materials and production. Topics discussed included Materials for Medical...

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The use of plastics is widespread. Less widespread, however, is a clear understanding and examination of the many forms of degradation inherent within the very environments these materials must perform. Medical...

Polymers from natural sources are particularly useful as biomaterials and in regenerative medicine, given their similarity to the extracellular matrix and other polymers in the human body. This important book reviews the wealth of research on both tried and promising new natural-based biomedical...

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Plastics are the most important class of packaging materials. This successful handbook, now in its second edition, covers all important aspects of plastic packaging and the interdisciplinary knowledge needed by food chemists, pharmaceutical chemists, food technologists, materials scientists,...

No book has been published that gives a detailed description of all the types of plastic materials used in medical devices, the unique requirements that the materials need to comply with and the ways standard plastics can be modified to meet such.

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Polyolefins are one of the most widely used commercial polymers. This book reviews the most important polyolefins, including polyethylene and polypropylene. These versatile fibres are durable, chemically resistant, lightweight, economical and functional. Polyolefin fibres: industrial and medical...

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There are many different chemicals and materials in use today. These are subject to stringent regulations, which include a requirement for physico-chemical and toxicity testing. In some countries existing chemicals are also...

The development of new multifunctional membranes and materials which respond to external stimuli, such as pH, temperature, light, biochemicals or magnetic or electrical signals, represents new approaches to separations, reactions, or recognitions. With multiple cooperative functions, responsive...

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Poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) is the most widely used polymer in today’s healthcare market. It is still the polymer of choice for single use presterilised medical devices after more than 50 years of service and it...

The use of polymers in medical technology continues to grow and provides major business opportunities for companies who service the medical industry. Sterilisation has always been challenging but sterilisation of polymer healthcare products is an even greater challenge – how do you...

Biomaterials work in contact with living matter and this gives a number of specific requirements for their surface properties, such as bioinertness or bioactivity, antibiofouling, and so on. Surface engineering based on physical, chemical, physical-chemical, biochemical or biological...

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Sterilization of plastic parts in medical devices, packaging equipment, and numerous other applications is imperative. A keen understanding of how plastic components will stand up to the rigors of various...

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• Essential data and practical guidance for engineers and scientists working with plastics in applications that require sterile packaging and equipment.
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This book describes the science, development, properties and application of of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) used in artificial joints. This material is currently used in 1.4 million patients around the world every year for use in the hip, knee, upper extremities, and...

Poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC) is the most versatile of all the commodity polymers. It can satisfy a wide range of product function, safety, performance, and cost criteria.

Update on Medical Plasticised PV considers the history of plasticised PVC in medical applications and the manufacturing...