[HTML][HTML] The road to the ideal stent: A review of stent design optimisation methods, findings, and opportunities

A Kapoor, N Jepson, NW Bressloff, PH Loh, T Ray… - Materials & Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Coronary stent designs have undergone significant transformations in geometry, materials,
and drug elution coatings, contributing to the continuous improvement of stenting success …

Application of additive manufacturing in the development of polymeric bioresorbable cardiovascular stents: a review

F Yasmin, A Vafadar… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polymeric vascular bioresorbable stents (BRSs) have been widely used for the treatment of
coronary artery diseases. While additive manufacturing (AM) is changing the landscape of …

[HTML][HTML] Design of innovative self-expandable femoral stents using inverse homogenization topology optimization

D Carbonaro, F Mezzadri, N Ferro, G De Nisco… - Computer Methods in …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we propose a novel computational framework for designing innovative self-
expandable femoral stents. First, a two-dimensional stent unit cell is designed by inverse …

3D printed auxetic stents with re-entrant and chiral topologies

A Alomarah, ZA Al-Ibraheemi… - Smart Materials and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The mechanical performance of the medical stent is crucial and of key significance to the
dependability and reliability of the stent-plaque-artery system. In this study, an auxetic stent …

Micro-scale graded mechanical metamaterials exhibiting versatile poisson's ratio

KK Dudek, L Mizzi, JAI Martínez, A Spaggiari… - Composite …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ability to control Poisson's ratio of functional materials has been one of the main
objectives of researchers attempting to develop structures efficient from the perspective of …

A novel double arrowhead auxetic coronary stent

K Gupta, K Meena - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
A stent implantation is a standard medical procedure for treating coronary artery diseases.
Over the years, various different designs have been explored for the stents which come with …

[HTML][HTML] Finite element analysis of the mechanical performance of a two-layer polymer composite stent structure

Ž Donik, B Nečemer, S Glodež, J Kramberger - Engineering Failure …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bioresorbable stents (BRS) are an alternative to existing bare-metal stents (BMS) and drug-
eluting stents (DES), aiming to reduce the short-and long-term complications in …

Mechanical properties of re-entrant chiral anisotropic honeycomb

M Chen, R Zhong, Y Wang, H Wu, M Fu - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we proposed a honeycomb structure with enhanced anisotropy in the
orthogonal direction with a re-entrant chiral hybrid deformation mechanism. The analytical …

[HTML][HTML] Easy-to-use formulations based on the homogenization theory for vascular stent design and mechanical characterization

D Carbonaro, N Ferro, F Mezzadri, D Gallo… - Computer Methods and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background and objectives Vascular stents are scaffolding structures implanted in the
vessels of patients with obstructive disease. Stents are typically designed as cylindrical …

A novel anti-tri-missing rib structure with a central ring for maintaining constant Poisson's ratio under large deformations

K Mo, F Lu, T Wei, C Zhang, Y He, Y Liu, X Ling… - Thin-Walled …, 2025 - Elsevier
Auxetic metamaterials, as a novel material, have achieved significant research progress.
However, most studies are confined to the small deformation range. Research on auxetic …