Twenty-first century challenges for biomaterials
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Twenty-first century challenges for biomaterials.
During the 1960s and 1970s, a first generation of materials was specially developed for use inside the human body. These developments became the basis for the field of biomaterials. The devices made from biomaterials are called prostheses. Professor Bill Bonfield was one of the first to recognize the importance of understanding the mechanical properties of tissues, especially bone, in order to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of The Royal Society Interface
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1742-5689,1742-5662
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0151.focus