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Bioengineered Textiles and Nonwovens – the convergence of bio-miniaturisation and electroactive conductive polymers for assistive healthcare, portable power and design-led wearable technology [PDF]
, 2009 Today, there is an opportunity to bring together creative design activities to exploit the responsive and adaptive ‘smart’ materials that are a result of rapid development in electro, photo active polymers or OFEDs (organic thin film electronic devices),
Oliver, Raymond +2 more
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Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Materials: Progress, Promise and Challenges [PDF]
Polymers, 2021 The use of additive manufacturing (AM) has moved well beyond prototyping and has been established as a highly versatile manufacturing method with demonstrated potential to completely transform traditional manufacturing in the future. In this paper, a comprehensive review and critical analyses of the recent advances and achievements in the field of ...
Saad Saleh Alghamdi +3 more
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Systemic analysis about residual chloroform in PLLA films
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2016 Toxic volatile organic chemicals (VOCs), such as chloroform, are widely used in polymer manufacture in the field of implants and polymeric drug carriers.
Teske Michael +4 more
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 Although the use of bioresorbable materials in stent production is thought to improve long-term safety compared to their durable counterparts, a recent FDA report on the 2-year follow-up of the first FDA-approved bioresorbable vascular stent showed an ...
Sandra Pacharra +12 more
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Bioactive ceramic-reinforced composites for bone augmentation [PDF]
, 2010 Biomaterials have been used to repair the human body for millennia, but it is only since the 1970s that man-made composites have been used. Hydroxyapatite (HA)-reinforced polyethylene (PE) is the first of the ‘second-generation’ biomaterials that have ...
Bonfield W. +20 more
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Manufacturing and design of smart polymer composites [PDF]
, 2021 Smart polymers (SP) have been extensively developed for inventive and valuable resolutions in diverse applications such as in the electrical and biomedical fields. Numerous synthetic techniques that have been introduced to form unique smart polymers with desired properties (e.g., size, shape, and geometry) are discussed.
Saba, Farooq +2 more
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Electrostrictive Polymers for Mechanical-to-Electrical Energy Harvesting [PDF]
, 2016 Research of electrostrictive polymers has generated new opportunities for harvesting energy from the surrounding environment and converting it into usable electrical energy. Piezoelectric ceramic based devices have long been used in energy harvesting for
Coutu, Ronald A., Jr. +2 more
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Düzce Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji DergisiPolymer extrusion is one of the most widely used polymer processing methods and the sole option for many standard products. The modern extrusion machine has a very sophisticated design; for example, the extrusion screw has different zones and complex ...
Emin Uslu, Galip Yılmaz
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Additive Manufacturing Letters, 2023 3D hybrid additive manufacturing describes the combined application of different additive manufacturing processes in order to manufacture a component with almost unlimited design freedom and free choice of materials.
Steffen Czink +3 more
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Application of polymer thermal store material in fixed honeycomb regenerative heat exchanger [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The article considers the possibility to use different types of polymer thermal store materials for regenerative heat exchangers in local ventilation systems.
Penev Angel, Tsokov Lyubomir
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