Exploration of the size, shape and abundance of UHMWPE wear particles using atomic force microscopy

Wear

Volumn 267, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 632-638

  Gladkis, L G ^a,b   Li, R W ^b   Scarvell, J M ^b   Smith, P N ^b   Timmers, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abundance distributions; Atomic force microscopy; Knee prosthesis; Polyethylene; UHMWPE; Wear particles

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTION; ABUNDANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; CHARACTERISATION; CONVENTIONAL FILTRATION; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; FILTER MEDIUMS; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LENGTH SCALE; NANOMETRE; NEW APPROACHES; NONUNIFORM; POLYETHYLENE PARTICLES; POLYETHYLENE WEAR; UHMWPE; WEAR PARTICLES; WEAR PROCESS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMS; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); JOINT PROSTHESES; POLYETHYLENES; POROUS MATERIALS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES; THERMOPLASTICS;

NONMETALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 65749084485     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2008.11.024     Document Type: Article

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