Titanium Based Biomaterials

Titanium and Titanium Alloys as Biomaterials

Antibacterial Strategies for Titanium Biomaterials

Unosson, E. 2015. Antibacterial Strategies for Titanium Biomaterials. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1250. 72 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9241-0. Titanium and titanium based alloys are widely used in dentistry and orthopedics to replace hard tissue and to mend broken bones. It has become a mate...

Titanium-Based Biomaterials for Preventing Stress Shielding between Implant Devices and Bone

β-type titanium alloys with low Young's modulus are required to inhibit bone atrophy and enhance bone remodeling for implants used to substitute failed hard tissue. At the same time, these titanium alloys are required to have high static and dynamic strength. On the other hand, metallic biomaterials with variable Young's modulus are required to satisfy the needs of both patients and surgeons, n...

Silk-based biomaterials.

Silk from the silkworm, Bombyx mori, has been used as biomedical suture material for centuries. The unique mechanical properties of these fibers provided important clinical repair options for many applications. During the past 20 years, some biocompatibility problems have been reported for silkworm silk; however, contamination from residual sericin (glue-like proteins) was the likely cause. Mor...

Elastomeric Recombinant Protein-based Biomaterials.

Elastomeric protein-based biomaterials, produced from elastin derivatives, are widely investigated as promising tissue engineering scaffolds due to their remarkable properties including substantial extensibility, long-term stability, self-assembly, high resilience upon stretching, low energy loss, and excellent biological activity. These elastomers are processed from different sources of solubl...