Biocompatibility of Nitinol for biomedical applications

Shape Memory Alloys for Biomedical Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 194-233

  Shabalovskaya, S ^a   Van Humbeeck, J ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BIOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; IMPLANT DEVICES; LOW-TEMPERATURE DIFFUSION; PLASMA PROTEIN ADSORPTION; PLATELET ADHESION; POROUS NITINOLS; SURFACE SUB-LAYERS;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY;

EID: 77955766132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9781845695248.1.194     Document Type: Chapter

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