Biomaterials | Bioengineering

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For medical devices that must be placed inside the body the right choice of material is the most important aspect of design. To ensure such devices are safe reliable economical and biologically and physiologically compatible the modern biomedical engineer must have a broad knowledge of currently available materials and the properties that affect their in-service performance. In chapters drawn from the third edition of the best-selling Biomedical Engineering Handbook Biomaterials surveys the wide variety of biomaterials in present use as well as materials resulting from novel micro- and nanoscale technologies. The book includes a general overview of bioinert bioactive or surface reactive cer…