Symposium J Biomedical Applications of 'Smart' Technologies

摘要

Several well established and ongoing applications are already available for adaptive/active materials in medicine that exploit the properties of shape memory materials, responsive bioceramics and bioglasses, biomimetic polymers and gels, active (nano)particles, smart optical fibers and textiles, etc. Nevertheless, the today capability to image and manage matter at the atomic and molecular level enabled by a number of nanoscale tools such as scanning probes, self and directed assembly, single molecule techniques, nanolithography and DNA-based technologies, coupled with advances in biomedical informatics,