Advanced Materials in Additive Manufacturing for Medical Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Manufacturing Processes and Systems".
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Additive manufacturing (AM) has found one of its most innovative and versatile applications in the field of healthcare. The application of AM in medical applications is bursting, and these emerging technologies innovations will define the healthcare of the future. AM technologies are currently not only used to manufacture prototypes for training, simulation, and presurgical planning of complex surgical procedures, but also to produce customized prosthetics and medical tools. However, these applications are only the first step, and materials and manufacturing processes for 3D printing for medical applications are in a continuous, complex state of evolution due to the material–process–property–functionality relationship.
This Special Issue seeks to present original articles, review articles, and state-of-the-art research papers that focus on:
- Research, development, and standardization of materials suitable for medical additive manufacturing;
- Frontier technological and progress research of medical additive manufacturing;
- Research on clinical translation and application of medical additive manufacturing.
We kindly invite you to submit a manuscript(s) for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Prof. Dr. Rafael Antonio Balart Gimeno
Dr. Teodomiro Boronat Vitoria
Prof. Dr. Joaquim De Ciurana Gay
Prof. Dr. Arantxa Eceiza Mendiguren
Dr. Luís Jesús Quiles-Carrillo
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Keywords
- Additive manufacturing technologies
- Biocompatible materials
- Medical implants
- Customized prosthetics
- Resorbable polymers
- Biocompatible organic and inorganic additives
- Controlled drug release
- Advanced characterization
- Hydrogels, polyesters, polyurethanes, polydioxanone, and other polymers in medicine
- Bioprinting
- Electrospinning
- Scaffolds, stents, tissue engineering, fixation plates, screws, bone implants, and so on
- Protein-based polymers
- Surface modification, wettability
- Computer modeling
- Biocompatibility studies
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