Description: Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 6^th Forum on New Materials, part of CIMTEC 2014-13th International Ceramics Congress and 6^th Forum on New Materials, June 15-19, 2014, Montecatini Terme, Italy. The 18 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Advances in Biomaterials, Chapter 2: Wearable and Implantable Sensors and Body Sensor Networks.

Biomedical Applications of Smart Materials

Edited by: Dr. Pietro Vincenzini and Danilo De Rossi

Online since: September 2008

Description: A collection of 42 peer-reviewed papers which, together, represent an authoritative survey of “Biomedical Applications of Smart Materials”. The papers are grouped under the headings: chapter 1: Advances in smart materials synthesis and functionality; chapter 2: Enabling tools; chapter 3: Medical diagnostic applications; chapter 4: Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering; chapter 5: New therapeutics and intelligent delivery systems; chapter 6: Mini / micro implantable devices; chapter 7: Medical applications of shape memory materials and smart textiles. This special volume has also been published online in the series, “Advances in Science and Technology” Vol. 57.