There is a tremendous increase in the demand for converting biomaterials into high-quality
industrially manufactured human body parts, also known as medical implants. Drug delivery …

Polyurethanes (PUs) are a major family of polymers displaying a wide spectrum of physico-
chemical, mechanical and structural properties for a large range of fields. They have shown …

Additive Manufacturing (AM) is the significantly progressing field in terms of methods,
materials, and performance of fabricated parts. Periodical evaluation on the understanding …

One of the critical issues in orthopaedic regenerative medicine is the design of bone
scaffolds and implants that replicate the biomechanical properties of the host bones. Porous …

Human tissue is structured mainly of self-assembled polymers (proteins) and ceramics
(bone minerals), with metals present as trace elements with molecular scale functions …

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) belong to a class of shape memory materials (SMMs), which
have the ability to 'memorise'or retain their previous form when subjected to certain stimulus …

Nature's material systems during evolution have developed the ability to respond and adapt
to environmental stimuli through the generation of complex structures capable of varying …

Taking inspiration from nature, triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are tailored as a
promising tool for designing internal pore architecture of porous biomaterials. In the next …

Shape memory materials (SMMs), including alloys and polymers, can be programmed into a
temporary configuration and then recover the original shape in which they were processed …

Laser welding of a Ni-rich NiTi-20Zr (at.%) high temperature shape memory alloy was
performed. The starting base material was aged for 3 h at 550° C followed by air cooling …