Medical Devices Based on Bioinspired Ceramics

Advanced Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 357-409

  González, Pío ^a   Martínez Fernández, Julián ^b   de Arellano López, Antonio R ^b   Singh, Mrityunjay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^c NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocompatibility studies for medical applications; Bioinspired SiC based ceramics microstructure, phase and element distribution; Medical devices based on bioinspired ceramics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449313026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470891315.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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