About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Recent Developments in Biological, Structural and Functional Thin Films and Coatings
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Presentation Title |
Functionalization of Polymers and Surfaces: a Way to Get Specific and Controlled Host Response towards Implantable Medical Devices |
Author(s) |
Veronique Migonney |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Veronique Migonney |
Abstract Scope |
Longer life expectancy leads an increasing of joint pathologies as well as increased demands for medical devices allowing patients to maintain normal physical activity. To solve these societal and economic problems, the combined contributions of chemists, physicists, biomechanists, materials engineers, biologists and surgeons aims to offer increasingly efficient medical implants.
Amongst the latest innovations one consists in developing “bioactive polymers and surfaces”, which can be implanted in human bodies without developing foreign host response. Bioactive polymers are macromolecular chains able to mimic biomolecules present in the living system. When grafted or coated on polymer, metallic or ceramic existing prostheses they may lure the living system and the prothesis will be recognized as a “natural” entity associated with no unwanted response.
Different methods of grafting bioactive polymers on polymeric and metallic surfaces and the biological in vitro and in vivo responses will be described. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Supplemental Proceedings volume |