tailieunhanh - Surface Engineered Surgical Tools and Medical Devices

The new millennium has seen the birth of a new perspective that conflates research in solid-state physics, biological science as well as materials engineering. The perspective is one that recognizes that future new advances in all these areas will be based on a fundamental understanding of the atomic and molecular infrastructure of materials that has resulted from two centuries of chemistry. Major advances will be achieved when the novel behavior, in particular the quantum mechanical behavior, that nanoscale structures possess, can be controlled and harnessed | Surface Engineered Surgical Tools and Medical Devices Surface Engineered Surgical Tools and Medical Devices Edited by Mark J. Jackson Purdue University West Lafayette IN USA Waqar Ahmed University of Ulster Newtownabbey UK 0 Springer Mark J. Jackson Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center College of Technology West Lafayette IN USA Waqar Ahmed University of Ulster NIBEC Newtownabbey UK Library of Congress Control Number 2007920041 ISBN 978-0-387-27026-5 e-ISBN 978-0-387-27028-9 Printed on acid-free paper. 2007 Springer Science Business Media LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher Springer Science Business Media LLC 233 Spring Street New York NY 10013 USA except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval electronic adaptation computer software or by similar or dissimilar methodology now know or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names trademarks service marks and similar terms even if they are not identified as such is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 .