For medical devices that must be placed inside the body, the right choice of
material is the most important aspect of design. To make sure such devices are
safe, reliable, economical, and biologically and physiologically compatible, the
modern biomedical engineer must have a braod knowledge of currently available
materials and the properties that affect their in-service performance. In
chapters drawn from the third edition of the best-selling Biomedical Engineering
Handbook, Biomaterials surveys the wide variety of biomaterials in present use
as well as materials resulting from novel micro- and nanoscale technologies. In
addition to material from the Handbook, nearly one-third of this sharply focused
work is new.
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