ROBERT LANGER: MEDICINE, THE NEW ENGINEERING

摘要

He and I invented a new method of sterilisation. Right now, if you try to sterilise objects, and this is widely used in medicine, there's really three methods: heat, which is like autoclaving, second method would be filtration, like through a certain type of filter, and third would be some type of radiation. Each of them has their disadvantages in terms of harming whatever you're doing. So we came up with a fourth method, which is using supercritical fluids. That method is actually now being used in Australia and all over the world to sterilise certain types of bone implants and things like that.