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Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 2023 Endoscopic implantation of medical devices for the treatment of lung diseases, including airway stents, unidirectional valves and coils, is readily used to treat central airway disease and emphysema.
Simon D. Pouwels +9 more
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Nitinol stent insertion in tracheomalacia [PDF]
Thorax, 2016 A 69-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with progressive dyspnoea accompanied by inspiratory stridor. He presented a history of surgical aortic valve replacement 3 years previously, complicated by prolonged postoperative mechanical ventilation requiring percutaneous tracheostomy.
Carmen, Pizarro +3 more
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Nitinol Type Alloys General Characteristics and Applications in Endodontics
Processes, 2022 A very extensive literature review presents the possibilities and needs of using, in endodontics, the alloys commonly known as nitinol. Nitinol, as the most modern group of engineering materials used to develop root canals, is equilibrium nickel and ...
L. Dobrzański +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Twistocaloric cooling technology is a novel solid elastocaloric refrigeration to be promising alternatives to conventional compression refrigeration. The transient thermal characteristics of the twistocaloric-effect material and its cooling capacity are ...
Haibo Zhao, Kun Wu
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The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2022 Nickel-titanium alloy (Nitinol) is an excellent shape memory alloy (SMA) for microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) particularly in biomedical applications owing to its three excellent features shape memory effect (SME), superelasticity, and ...
A. Sethi, B. R. Acharya, P. Saha
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NITINOL ENGINE DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
, 1976 The objective of this project is to determine the feasibility of applying the shape-memory effect in certain intermetallic compounds (particularly ''55 Nitinol'') to the conversion of low temperature heat energy to mechanical work by means of solid state heat engines.
Ridgway Banks, Michael Wahlig
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Ocular Biocompatibility of a Nitinol Capsular Tension Ring (CTR)
The EuroBiotech Journal, 2022 Introduction: The biocompatibility of nitinol in the human body has extensively been demonstrated. Although nitinol is already being used for intraocular surgeries such as lens fragmentation and foreign body extraction, little is known about its ...
de Aragon Javier S Martinez +2 more
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Metals, 2022 One of the issues that modern implants face is their high stiffness, coupled with a positive Poisson’s ratio along the implant. This creates certain problems with bone inflammation and implant detachment.
Eduard Farber +6 more
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Adhesion, vitality and osteogenic differentiation capacity of adipose derived stem cells seeded on nitinol nanoparticle coatings. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Autologous cells can be used for a bioactivation of osteoimplants to enhance osseointegration. In this regard, adipose derived stem cells (ASCs) offer interesting perspectives in implantology because they are fast and easy to isolate.
Sarah Strauss +7 more
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Development of hot drawing process for nitinol tube [PDF]
, 2009 In recent years, Nitinol, near-equiatomic nickel-titanium alloys, have found growing applications in medical technology and joining technology, due to their special characteristics such as shape memory, superplasticity and biocompatibility.
Favier D. +7 more
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