Structural changes of UHMWPE after e-beam irradiation and thermal treatment

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 240-251

  Slouf, Miroslav ^a   Synkova, Hana ^a   Baldrian, Josef ^a   Marek, Antonin ^a   Kovarova, Jana ^a   Schmidt, Pavel ^a   Dorschner, Helmut ^b   Stephan, Michael ^b   Gohs, Uwe ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^c Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

e beam irradiation; Macroradicals; Oxidative degradation; Thermal treatment; UHMWPE supermolecular structure

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; HEAT TREATMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

MACRORADICAL CONTENT; OXIDATIVE DEGRADATION;

ULTRAHIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENES;

ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; DEGRADATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; OXIDATION; RADIATION DOSE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYETHYLENES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIATION; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 41449089976     PISSN: 15524973     EISSN: 15524981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.30942     Document Type: Article

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