Mechanica & mechanobiologie van medische textielen voor cardiovasculaire toepassingen KU Leuven
Medical implants are well established in orthopaedic applications, for example fixation plates to support fractured or weakened bone, and more recently, bone grafts to replace missing bone. For soft tissues and organs, medical textiles can be used for analogous purposes, but this research domain is much more recent, with still many unknowns regarding the requirements of the textiles in terms of mechanical properties and their interaction with ...