Silicon Carbide Biotechnology

Stephen Saddow 지음

elsevier 2011년 11월 14일 출간

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Silicon Carbide (SiC) is a wide-band-gap semiconductor biocompatible material that has the potential to advance advanced biomedical applications. SiC devices offer higher power densities and lower energy losses, enabling lighter, more compact and higher efficiency products for biocompatible and long-term in vivo applications ranging from heart stent coatings and bone implant scaffolds to neurological implants and sensors. The main problem facing the medical community today is the lack of biocompatible materials that are also capable of electronic operation. Such devices are currently implemented using silicon technology, which either has to be hermetically sealed so it cannot interact with the body or the material is only stable in vivo for short periods of time. For long term use (permanent implanted devices such as glucose sensors, brain-machine-interface devices, smart bone and organ implants) a more robust material that the body does not recognize and reject as a foreign (i.e., not organic) material is needed. Silicon Carbide has been proven to be just such a material and will open up a whole new host of fields by allowing the development of advanced biomedical devices never before possible for long-term use in vivo. This book provides not only the materials and biomedical engineering communities with a seminal reference book on SiC that they can use to further develop the technology, but to also provide a technology resource for medical doctors and practitioners who are hungry to identify and implement advanced engineering solutions to their everyday medical problems that currently lack long term, cost effective solutions. Discusses Silicon Carbide biomedical materials and technology in terms of their properties, processing, characterization, and application, in one book, from leading professionals and scientistsCritical assesses existing literature, patents and FDA approvals for clinical trials, enabling t

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1 Silicon Carbide materials growth and processing 2 SiC Synthesis ？？ from amorphous and polycrystalline coatings to single crystal films 3 Multi-functional SiC surfaces: From Passivation to Functionalization 4 SiC in-vitro biocompatibility: skin cells and connective tissues 5 SiC hemacompatibility for cardiovascular applications 6 SiC as a long-term implantable neural prosthetic material 7 SiC for brain-machine-interfaces 8 SiC for microdialysis 9 Biocompatibility of SiC for osteo-applications 10 SiC bioMEMS 11 SiC as a bio-compatible marker for disease detection 12 Carbon Electrodes: Graphene and Graphite on SiC

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저자(글) Stephen Saddow