Subsurface oxidation of polyethylene

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 523-529

  Daly, Brendan M ^a,b   Yin, John ^a,c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BioMetics Inc   (United States)

^c Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

radiation; Free radical; Oxygen diffusion; Polyethylene oxidation; Reaction diffusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FREE RADICALS; GAMMA RAYS; KETONES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; POLYETHYLENES;

SUBSURFACE OXIDATION; ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; DIFFUSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; THEORY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; FREE RADICALS; GAMMA RAYS; KETONES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; POLYETHYLENES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032534621     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(19981215)42:4<523::AID-JBM7>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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