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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedAdvanced materials: testing, QC and inspection: the latest materials testing and analysis techniques are examined. Examples of their use illustrate how they can help in the development of new products, solve product and process issues and ensure quality control.(manufacturing)
Medical Device Technology, September, 2009 by White, Richard N.
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Ever increasing capabilities Comprehensive materials testing is critical in supporting the performance of currently available medical devices as well as developing innovative new ones. Devices such as orthopaedic implants, vascular drug-eluting stents, microelectronics and biomaterials for grafts and cements are all benefiting from enhanced materials technology in metal alloys, advanced ceramics, polymers, biomaterials and composites. These exciting innovations can be correlated to a number of industry trends, the most notable of which are:
* improved predictability in the behaviour and long term performance of implants
* increasing use of biomaterials
* more focus on orthopaedic implant interfaces to...
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