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The parting of the ways? How biomaterials may differ from advanced materials in the next century
1Clinical Engineering Department, Royal Liverpool University, UK. dfw.ce@liverpool.ac.uk
Medical Device Technology
|October 28, 1999
Abstract:
A recent symposium on the future role of materials science in some critical industries suggests that the historical reliance of the medical device industry on the advances made in conventional materials development may not be sustained in the next few decades.