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Medical applications of shape memory polymers
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Shape memory polymers (SMP) are lightweight, have a high strain/shape recovery ability, are easy to process, and required properties can be tailored for variety of applications. Recently a number of medical applications have been considered and investigated, especially for polyurethane-based SMP. SMP materials were found to be biocompatible, non-toxic and non-mutagenic. The glass transition temperature (T(g)) can be tailored for shape restoration/self-deployment of clinical devices when inserted in the human body. Newly developed SMP foams, together with cold hibernated elastic memory (CHEM) processing, further broaden their potential biomedical applications. Polyurethane-based SMP are described here and major advantages are identified over other medical materials. Some SMP applications are already used in a clinical setting, whereas others are still in development. Lately, several important applications are being considered for CHEM foams as self-deployable vascular and coronary devices. One example is the endovascular treatment of aneurysms.
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- Sokolowski, W., Metcalfe, A., Hayashi, S., Yahia, L., & Raymond, J.
- Venue
- Biomedical Materials
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2007-03
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- S23-S27
- ISSN
- 1748-6041 (ISSN-L)
- 1748-605X
- OpenAlex
- W2121648403
- Cited by
- 369
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 13.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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