Novel nano-composite biomaterials that respond to light

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2409-2411

  Hribar, Kolin C ^a   Metter, Robert B ^a   Burdick, Jason A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANORODS; POLYMERS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

BIODEGRADABLE NETWORKS; BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; EXTERNAL STIMULUS; MICROSYSTEM COMPONENTS; NANOROD CONCENTRATIONS; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; SHAPE TRANSITIONS; SHAPE-MEMORY MATERIALS;

NANOCOMPOSITES;

EID: 77950982163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334763     Document Type: Conference Paper

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