Exploring tribology and material contact science in spine surgery: implications for implant design

G Scariano, S Meade, A Sultan, M Shost… - … of Neurosurgery: Spine, 2024 - thejns.org
Tribology, an interdisciplinary field concerned with the science of interactions between
surfaces in contact and their relative motion, plays a well-established role in the design of …

Chemical etching of Ti‐6Al‐4V biomaterials fabricated by selective laser melting enhances mesenchymal stromal cell mineralization

C O'Keeffe, M Kotlarz, IF Gonçalves… - … Research Part A, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Porous titanium scaffolds fabricated by powder bed fusion additive manufacturing
techniques have been widely adopted for orthopedic and bone tissue engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Using Different Surface Energy Models to Assess the Interactions between Antiviral Coating Films and phi6 Model Virus

Z Peršin Fratnik, O Plohl, V Kokol… - Journal of functional …, 2023 - mdpi.com
High molecular weight chitosan (HMWCh), quaternised cellulose nanofibrils (qCNF), and
their mixture showed antiviral potential in liquid phase, while this effect decreased when …

[HTML][HTML] Photo-crosslinked chitosan-gelatin xerogel-like coating onto “cold” plasma functionalized poly (lactic acid) film as cell culture support

M Brebu, D Pamfil, I Stoica, M Aflori, G Voicu… - Carbohydrate …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper reports on biofunctionalisation of a poly (lactic acid)(PLA) film by surface
activation through cold plasma treatment followed by coating with a chitosan-gelatin xerogel …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated design strategy coupling additive manufacturing and matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) towards the development of a new …

T Russo, V Peluso, A Gloria, V Gargiulo, M Alfe… - Nanoscale …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioinspired strategies for scaffold design and optimization were improved by the introduction
of Additive Manufacturing (AM), thus allowing for replicating and reproducing complex …

Tunable wettability with stretchable microstructured surfaces

HH Vu, NT Nguyen, NK Nguyen, CH Luu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Analyzing the wettability of stretchable microstructured surfaces is crucial in applications like
soft robotics, wearable biosensors, stretchable electronics, and electronic skin (e‐skin) …

[HTML][HTML] Laser texturing of additively manufactured implants: A tool to programme biological response

VM Villapún, K Man, L Carter, P Penchev, S Dimov… - Biomaterials …, 2023 - Elsevier
The advent of additive manufacturing (AM) is rapidly shaping healthcare technologies
pushing forward personalisation and enhanced implant functionalisation to improve clinical …

Effect of post-processing and variation of the building angle of Ti-6Al-4 V disks obtained by selective laser melting: A comparison of physical, chemical and mechanical …

CAS Celles, ABV Teixeira, ML da Costa Valente… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is driving the development of dental implants with freedom of
design, material savings, and predictable properties. The modification of a single parameter …

[HTML][HTML] In Vitro Study of the Proliferation of MG63 Cells Cultured on Five Different Titanium Surfaces

R Campagna, V Schiavoni, E Marchetti, E Salvolini… - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
The use of dental implants for prosthetic rehabilitation in dentistry is based on the concept of
osteointegration. This concept enables the clinical stability of the implants and a total …

[HTML][HTML] Different Methods to Modify the Hydrophilicity of Titanium Implants with Biomimetic Surface Topography to Induce Variable Responses in Bone Marrow …

TW Jacobs, JT Dillon, DJ Cohen, BD Boyan… - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The osteoblastic differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells (bMSCs), critical to the
osseointegration of titanium implants, is enhanced on titanium surfaces with biomimetic …