Sutures Adsorbable

Materials synthesis is a necessary component in the development of advanced technologies for national security and homeland defense. For instance, new composites, nanoscale molecules and compounds, and polymers are needed for tougher, explosion- or puncture-resistant materials that can be employed in buildings, garments, bridges, and other products and structures. Personal protective materials could be enhanced with new chemical adsorbents filter materials, impermeable membranes, artificial sutures, and improved energetic materials for... 

Stimuli-responsive polymers have gained increasing interest and served in a vast number of medical and/or pharmaceutical applications such as implants, medical devices or controlled drug delivery systems, enzyme immobilization, immune-diagnosis, sensors, sutures, adhesives, adsorbents, coatings, contact lenses, renal dialyzers, concentration and extraction of metals, for enhanced oil recovery, and other specialized systems (Chen and Hsu 1997 Chen et al. 1997 Wu and Zhou 1997 Yuk et al. 1997 Bayhan and Tuncel 1998 Tuncel 1999 Tuncel and Ozdemir 2000 Hoffman 2002 en and Sari 2005 Fong et al. 2009). Some novel applications in the biomedical field using stimuli-responsive materials in bulk or just at the surface are shape-memory (i.e., devices that can adapt shape to facilitate the implantation and recover their conformation within the body to... 

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