Rising to the surface: the technology of polymeric surfaces on biomaterials.
The properties of a piece of plastic may generally be highly appropriate for a medical application except that its surface may not be optimal. Some of the many ways in which the surfaces of biomaterials can be modified so that the main bulk properties are undisturbed and specialist surface properties exist in a thin, often invisible, layer are described in this article.
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Clinical Engineering Department, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK. dfw.ce@liverpool.ac.uk
D000327:Adsorption; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry*; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D006801:Humans; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D013499:Surface Properties
D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D011108:Polymers