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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Biomedical Devices"”.
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Additive Manufacturing of Functional Materials for Biomedical Devices
Biomedical devices have revolutionised modern healthcare by enabling more precise and effective treatment, which has profoundly improved patient care and quality of life. Among these devices, protective wearable medical devices can offer continuous and non-invasive protection in everyday life, and …
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Piezoelectric MEMS for Energy Conversion in Biomedical Devices
Next-generation implantable medical devices are increasingly dependent on the development of sustainable and safe power sources that eliminate the need for bulky battery packs, as well as efficient and miniaturized sensing mechanisms capable of monitoring multiple physical vital signs with low …
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Power Management Schemes for Ultra Low Power Biomedical Devices
… of emerging implantable and wearable biomedical devices, novel power management schemes are presented in this thesis to increase device run-time. The schemes involve several techniques suitable for ultra low power biomedical integrated circuit design. This thesis presents a combination …
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PECVD of silicon and titanium based coatings to enhance the biocompatibility of blood contacting biomedical devices
The clinical success of a surgical implantation depends on various factors including the design and biocompatibility of the biomaterial, surgical procedure adopted, injuries made during implantation and health and condition of the patient. The success of a biomaterial depends on the interaction and …
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Multifunctional Polymer Fiber Probes for Biomedical Application
Biomedical devices play a crucial role in the healthcare system, enabling more effective treatments, less invasive procedures, and more precise diagnoses. Due to these compelling reasons, development of new biomedical devices and biomaterials have always been in high demand. Exploring and refining …
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Engineering biomaterial surfaces with N-cadherin
… and further harness it in the assembly of biomedical devices used for sensing, diagnosis, and treatments. One of the greatest challenges in these efforts is to control the type and number of N-cadherin molecules involved in cell-cell adhesion. To address this challenge, this study utilizes …
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Engineering Biomedical and Bioinspired Fiber Devices via Thermal Drawing
… such as sensing, battery, computing, and biomedical devices. In this thesis, I develop approaches to expand use of thermally drawn fibers in biomedical fields by overcoming a limitation of thermal drawing technique or integrating functional components into thermally drawn fibers. First, …
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Mechanics of Composite Hydrogels
… structural components of biological materials, biomedical devices, food, and consumer products. The mechanical properties of composite hydrogels are pivotal for their respective applications, and are governed by physical processes which remain unexplored. This thesis explores the physical …
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Lanthanide complexes of phthalimide and phthalamate containing ligands: synthesis, photophysical properties and their potential applications
… switches have made important contributions to biomedical devices and molecular computational operations. There are numerous molecular designs using a fluorophore linked through a spacer group to a receptor(s), with a wide dynamic range, directional precision, target specificity, and molecular …
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Multiscale design of bioadhesive platforms for next-generation applications in surgery and healthcare
… for fabricating tunable, application-specific devices. Together, these platforms expand the design space for creating robust and versatile tissue repair solutions and biomedical devices.
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Design techniques for temperature insensitive, low phase noise oscillator
… the most important components in many electronic devices. Common clock references are based on quartz crystals which offer high quality factor, good phase noise performance and excellent stability against temperature, voltage and process variation. However, due to incompatibility with silicon …
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Topology optimization and physical realization of magnetically active soft materials: from reprogrammable metamaterials to biomedical robots
… of applications, including soft robotics and biomedical devices. In particular, one type of magnetic soft materials, made of a soft elastic matrix embedded with magnetic particles that can retain high remanent magnetization, offer exceptional programmability and flexibility. As an initial …
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AI-assisted Development of Energy Harvesters for POCT
… of pathogen detection and energy harvesting in biomedical applications. The work is centered on the design and validation of impedance spectroscopy-based biosensors that offer sensitive, and specific pathogen detection, crucial for timely healthcare interventions. A key component of this …
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Nanoindentation Techniques for the Evaluation of Silicon Nitride Thin Films
… nitride thin films are of interest in the biomedical engineering field due to their biocompatibility and favorable tribological properties. Evaluation and understanding of the properties of these films under diverse loading and failure conditions is a necessary prerequisite to their use in …
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A mechanically-guided approach to three-dimensional functional mesostructures towards unconventional applications
… (3DFMs) has broad engineering implications in biomedical devices, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), optics, and energy storage. Most existing 3D techniques, however, not only lack compatibility with essential electronic materials (silicon, metals, ceramics) that exist in solid-state or …
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Cmos Design of an 8-Bit 1MS/S Successive Approximation Register ADC
… a way to develop smaller and energy efficient biomedical devices which has put stringent requirements on data acquisition systems. These implantable devices are compact and have a very small footprint. Once implanted these devices need to rely on non-rechargeable batteries to sustain a life …
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Ultra-low-power SRAM design in high variability advanced CMOS
… energy-constrained systems (e.g. implantable biomedical devices, multimedia handsets, etc.) are an important class of applications driving ultra-low-power SRAMs. This thesis analyzes the energy of an SRAM sub-array. Since supply- and threshold-voltage have a strong effect, targets for these …
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Nanoporosity Formation in Ag-Au Alloys
… for high surface area applications such as in biomedical devices, microfilters and catalysts. Understanding the kinetic processes governing the development of porosity during dealloying and having ability to change the electrochemical conditions will allow us to better control over the average …
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Biotechnological utilisation of Nephrops shell waste
… being made to prevent blockage of these biomedical devices due to mineral ions, via the use of different manufacturing materials. Shell waste that had been demineralised using lactic acid fermentation was deacetylated using 50% (w/v) NaOH at 90oC. Membranes were prepared from the …
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