Polylactic acid is one of the most used biopolymers due to its overall properties and biodegradability. Nevertheless, polylactic has important drawbacks such as brittleness, low thermal stability, higher cost than commodity polymers. In order overcome those disadvantages without compromising biodegradability, addition wood particles annealing on crystallinity impact strength wood-polylactic bio...

Nanomedicine aims to apply and further develop nanotechnology to solve problems in medicine, related to diagnosis, treatment and/or disease prevention at the cellular and molecular level (Feng, 2006; Feng and Chien, 2003). Nanomedicine by nature is interdisciplinary, with benefits being realised at the interface of science and engineering, physical science and engineering, chemical science and ...

In the automotive sector, which is one of sectors where polymers are mostly used, their behaviour and compatibility in secondary processes such as painting coating applications important preference according to usage areas well mechanical thermal properties. this context, it known that surface wettability a polymer material great importance for different application can be stated wetting non-we...

The potential use of natural biopolymer composites in a variety of applications that requires biodegradability and better mechanical properties has renewed many researchers interest on the composites. This research involves the analysis of flexural properties for natural fibers specifically kenaffiber mat in a polylactic acid (PLA) matrix (KMPLA). The polylactic acid has been chosen as a matrix...

BACKGROUND To minimize acute stent thrombosis and development of restenosis, stents coated with biodegradable and nonbiodegradable polymers have been proposed to serve as sustained-release drug carriers. METHODS AND RESULTS In both a sheep and a pig model, we examined the vascular response to standard and high-pressure implantation of coronary Palmaz-Schatz stents coated with a 10-microm laye...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results we obtained from 37 patients referred to our clinics with resorbable plate-screw systems which have been claimed as biodegradable fixation materials and used in craniofacial, maxillofacial and orthopedic reconstructive procedures owing to their advantages such as biocompatibility, adequate biomechanical resistance, longer dwelling time, elimination through phys...