Medical textiles and biomaterials for healthcare : incorporating proceedings of MEDTEX03 International Conference and Exhibition on Healthcare and Medical Textiles /
Medical textiles are a major growth area within the technical textiles industry and the range of applications continues to grow and increase in diversity with every new development. Recent innovations include novel chitosan-alginate fibres for advanced wound dressings, ultrasonic energy for bleachin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, England ; Boca Raton, Florida :
Woodhead Publishing Limited : CRC Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Woodhead publishing in textiles.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Medical textiles are a major growth area within the technical textiles industry and the range of applications continues to grow and increase in diversity with every new development. Recent innovations include novel chitosan-alginate fibres for advanced wound dressings, ultrasonic energy for bleaching cotton medical textiles, durable and rechargeable biocidal textiles, spider silk supportive matrix for cartilage regeneration, barbed bi-directional surgical sutures and intelligent textiles for medical applications. Medical textiles and biomaterials for healthcare is a culmination of the w. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (521 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781845694104 1845694104 |