Overview
The Handbook of Active Materials for Medical Devices: Advances and Applications pays attention to all kinds biodevices, mainly implantable or quirurgical, for diagnosis or treatment of different pathologies, which benefit from the use of active materials as sensors or actuators. Such active or 'intelligent' materials are capable of responding in a controlled way to different external physical or chemical stimuli by changing some of their properties. These materials can be used to design and develop sensors, actuators and multifunctional systems with a large number of applications for developing biodevices and medical appliances. Current work on these fields entails problems related to synthesis, characterization, modeling, simulation, processing and prototyping technologies, as well as device testing and validation, all of which are treated in depth in the Handbook, for the several types of active or intelligent materials covered. The General Index is included further on for additional details: Introduction to Product Development and Systematic Methodologies; General Considerations for Developing Medical Devices; Active Materials in Medical Devices; Shape Memory Alloys for Biodevices; Shape Memory Polymers for Biodevices; Electroactive Polymers as Sensors for Biodevices; Electroactive Polymers as Actuators for Biodevices; Active Ceramics for Biodevices; Pyroelectric Materials for Biodevices; Magnetically Active Materials for Biodevices; Optically Active Materials for Biodevices; Hydroactive Materials for Biodevices; Functionally Gradient Active Materials; Novel Micro- and Nano-structured Active Materials; and, Proposal of Development Methodology.
Full Product Details
Author: Andres Diaz Lantada
Publisher: Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd
Imprint: Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9789814303354
ISBN 10: 9814303356
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 28 September 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Electronic book text
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Awaiting stock
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.
Reviews
This book is an excellent summary of the up-to-date knowledge onacurrently available and future active materials for medical applications. The research-oriented structure and content of the book makes it unique and one of a kind. -Prof. Emilio Bautista Paz - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Author Information
Andres Diaz Lantada studied industrial engineering and specialized in mechanical engineering at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain (www.upm.es). He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 2009 with a thesis on methodology for the structured development of medical devices based on active polymers. He has worked for 10 years as a researcher at this university's Mechanical Engineering Department and collaborated actively with its Product Development Laboratory, in both research and teaching tasks. Currently he works as assistant professor at UPM and teaches subjects at both the graduate and postgraduate levels, as well as specialization courses. He is also actively engaged in conducting research on different areas related with product development. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, several books and book chapters and is the co-inventor of 10 patents on the use of active materials for improving the sensing/actuating capabilities of medical products.
