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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Biomedical application"”.
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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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Titanium surface modification by oxidation for biomedical application
Surface modification is a process that is applied to the surfaces of titanium substrates in order to improve the biocompatibility after implanting in the body. Two methods were used in the present work: Anodisation and gel oxidation. Anodisation was performed at room temperature in strong mineral …
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Functional polymers for biomedical application : synthesis and applications
… show pH dependant solubility could be used for biomedical applications ranging from enteric coatings to hydrosoluble drug delivery vehicles capable of targeting areas of low physiological pH. With these applications in mind the polymers were characterised by infra red spectroscopy, gel …
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Portable electrochemical and plasmonic biosensors for biomedical application
… in a wide variety for clinical and environmental applications. The idea of POC comes from the advances in portable smart electronic devices and micro-fluid systems which can be integrated and miniaturized into a lab-on-a-chip. Modern electronic devices, like smartphones, smartwatchs or even …
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Polymer based microscale and nanoscale technologies for optical and biomedical application
… and biocompatible and biodegradable for application in optics and biomedicine. I tackled four different technological challenges in this research work using novel biomimetic design and biopolymers as listed below.</p> <p>First, I designed wide acceptance angle thin and flat miniaturized …
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The Biomedical Application of Conducting Polymers for the Electrochemical Detection of Diseases
… of an electric field. They have potential applications in alternative energy, sensors, display technologies, and biomedicine. In combination with biorecognition molecules like DNA aptamers or antibodies, conducting polymers can be used as biosensing devices for the detection and monitoring …
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Controlled radiation grafting of N-vinyl pyrrolidone into silicone rubber for biomedical application
<p>http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20899619</p>
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Evaluation of Silica-Nanosphere-Based Contrast Agents for Biomedical Application
… as dual modality contrast agents and further applications for cell-labeling/tracking when they are conjugated with other bio-molecules such as proteins, enzymes, and DNA.
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Preparation of bioactive surface via gel oxidation on titanium for biomedical application (hip joint replacement)
… and its alloys are widely used as implant in biomedical applications. They have good mechanical and chemical properties, biocompatibility and biointegration with human body, but they have no ability to bond directly to natural bone. Therefore, alkali and heat treatments (gel oxidation) were …
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In vitro bioactivities of anodised titanium in mixtrue of B-Glycerophosphate and calcium acetate for biomedical application
Anodic oxidation has been widely used to modify the surface properties of titanium in order to improve the biocompatibility after implantation. In this study, high purity titanium foils were exposed in a mixture of β-glycerophosphate disodium salt pentahydrate (β-GP) and calcium acetate monohydrate …
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The mechanical and magnetic behaviour of sintered fibre networks and their suitability for a therapeutic, biomedical application
… heat exchangers or catalysts). One potential application in the field of therapeutic, biomedical engineering is the magnetic-mechanical stimulation of bone growth around prosthetic implants after joint replacement surgery. The loosening of prosthetic implants in the human bone is one of the …
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Development of novel series and parallel sensing system based on nanostructured surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate for biomedical application
… resonance (LSPR) enables a variety of new applications in different areas, especially biological sensing techniques. One of the promising biological sensing applications by surface resonance polariton is surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), which significantly reinforces the feeble …
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Whispering photons : on-chip biophotonic integrated circuits for point-of-care diagnostics
… for diagnostic, therapies and theranostic applications. At present, there is not a single biomedical application where optical components are not applied. If we can come up with a framework that can miniaturize these optical components on a chip, it can offer various advantages in terms of …
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Development of a Three-Dimensional Image-Guided Needle Positioning System for Small Animal Interventions
… interventions or other demanding quantitative applications. The design of a robot is described which features a remote center of motion architecture and is compact enough to operate within a micro-CT bore. Methods to calibrate the robot and register it to a micro-CT scanner are introduced. The …
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Development of porous delivery systems for oral drug and vaccine administration
… and chemical properties, they have widespread applications in nearly every technology sector. Chapter 1 described the main biomedical application of cellular materials: the use of porous ceramics, polymers and/or metals as bone implants for structural purposes as well as for local drug …
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Growth by pulsed laser deposition and characterisation of zinc oxide thin films and nanostructures
… A model for this case was proposed. Finally, a biomedical application of ZnO was investigated to determine the potential of ZnO thin films for the sterilisation of biofilms of the bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis. It was found that such a biofilm grown atop a ZnO thin film is inactivated …
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Optical Printing of Multiscale Hydrogel Structures
… engineering, lab on a chip and biophotonics applications. A range of optical fabrication technologies such as photolithography, digital projection stereolithography and laser direct writing have been used to shape hydrogels into structurally complex functional devices and constructs. However, …
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Antimicrobial Properties of Graphite and Coal-Derived Graphene Oxides as an Advanced Coating for Titanium Implants
… coal-derived graphene oxide (c-GO) in a biomedical application. c-GO has been demonstrated to have a greater number of functional oxygen groups to promote cell adhesion, while also maintaining thinner layers than possible with graphite exfoliation methods. As an alternative to powerful …
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Photo-Curing Behavior and Thermal Properties of Silicone Semi Interpenetrating Polymer Network (Semi-IPN) Organogels
… considerable interest due to their important biomedical application areas such as contact lenses and wound dressings. The applications of such materials are usually in the hydrated state, as hydrogels. However, manufacturing and molding processes are mostly carried out in the organically …
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Small Solutions to Big Problems: Design and Synthesis of Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
… with hydrodynamic diameters below 200 nm for applications in cancer treatment and immunology. Hydrophobic ion pairing was applied to enhance the loading capacity of drugs and peptides in polyester and polysaccharide nanoparticles systems. Polyester nanoparticles were successfully …
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