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Hard Cellular Materials in the Human Body: Properties and Production of Foamed Polymers for Bone Replacement

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Foams and Emulsions

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Hard tissues such as bone are composed structurally by a compact surface and a cellular core, which is very similar to a synthetic structural foam material. In this paper the structure of human bone is discussed and related to that of synthetic foamed materials that are aimed at copying bone structure.

This chapter also reports on the development of processing routes, based on injection moulding for producing cellular materials that are intended to reproduce the structure of bone. Two different polymeric materials are used: novel starch based polymers (biodegradable) and polyethylene (bioinert), in order to develop materials both for temporary and permanent applications.

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  1. Institute for Biomedical Engineering, INEB, Rua do Campo Alegre 823, 4150, Porto, Portugal

    C. S. Pereira, M. E. Gomes & R. L. Reis

  2. Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Faculty Engineering, University of Porto, Rua dos Bragas, 4099, Porto Codex, Portugal

    R. L. Reis

  3. Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800, Guimarães, Portugal

    C. S. Pereira, M. E. Gomes, R. L. Reis & A. M. Cunha

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  1. Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

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  2. Institut de Physique, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

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Pereira, C.S., Gomes, M.E., Reis, R.L., Cunha, A.M. (1999). Hard Cellular Materials in the Human Body: Properties and Production of Foamed Polymers for Bone Replacement. In: Sadoc, J.F., Rivier, N. (eds) Foams and Emulsions. NATO ASI Series, vol 354. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9157-7_12

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