Academic Journal
A Cold Plasma-Enabled Reduction Process for the Fabrication of Metallic Nanostructures Onto Polymeric Biomaterials
| العنوان: | A Cold Plasma-Enabled Reduction Process for the Fabrication of Metallic Nanostructures Onto Polymeric Biomaterials |
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| المؤلفون: | Hernandez-Moreno, Gerardo |
| المصدر: | All ETDs from UAB |
| بيانات النشر: | UAB Digital Commons |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Low-temperature plasma, biomaterials, 3D-printing, materiobiology, surface modification, implantable materials, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) School of Engineering, Engineering |
| الوصف: | The design and manufacture of novel materials has served as the bedrock for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. There exists a need for more biocompatible implantable materials in the biomedical device space. The approach to developing biomaterials fit for biomedical devices has been focused on decreasing overall physiological interaction with the local environment. However, the development of more biomechanically favorable materials has placed an emphasis on designing materials that display biomimetic and biomechanical properties resembling that of the host tissue at the implant site. As biomaterials engineering has progressed, the race to find materials that interact at the nano- and micro-scales has yielded novel biomaterials, primarily in the polymers and composite space. The introduction of biopolymers as suitable replacements for commonly implantable materials highlights various deficits in biomaterial design. A focus on tissue regenerative biomedical research has shifted biomaterial requirements towards a need for more bioactive materials that also employ greener synthesis and processing methods. Challenges arise with respect to such materials since altering the chemical composition of materials will typically affect the bulk properties of the material as well as its scalability and translational potential. However, low-temperature plasma (LTP) has opened the door for the synthesis of bioactive nanoparticles and modification of material surfaces via functionalization, etching, and reactive coatings via surface grafting and surface polymerization. Recently the National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded $40 million to Alabama Universities (a consortium of 9 universities and a few industries) to explore Future Technologies Enabled by Plasma Processes (FTPP) based on low-temperature plasmas. The UAB materials engineering team focused on plasma’s surface interaction with soft biomaterials for tuning the bio-interfaces of materials for various biomedical applications. In an era of growing ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| Relation: | https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/18; https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/context/etd-collection/article/1022/viewcontent/HernandezMoreno_uab_0005D_13613.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/18 https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/context/etd-collection/article/1022/viewcontent/HernandezMoreno_uab_0005D_13613.pdf |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.E14C7FEF |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |