Recent Progress in Biotribology, Biomaterials and Related Mechanical Measurements
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2021) | Viewed by 4371
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Interests: (bio) tribology; tribo-corrosion; biomechanics; biocomposites; biomaterials; green lubricants; dynamical systems; multibody; acoustic noise; mechanical vibrations
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Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, aspects of tribology concerned with biological systems and tribological properties of implantable biomaterials are extremely important, especially in situations where there is relative movement between the implanted biomaterials or between the implanted biomaterial and the natural tissue in physiological environments.
Recently, more and more innovative biomaterials, techniques (for example, 3D printing), and surface modification approaches have been introduced and, thus, their potential as implantable biomaterials and, furthermore, their biotribology and biotribocorrosion properties require investigation.
Moreover, to date, in silico wear prediction models of artificial human implants play a key role in the modeling of biotribological phenomena in the human body, justifying the growing interest of researchers in this direction.
This Special Issue aims to present a collection of manuscripts which may address, but not be limited to, the following topics:
(1) Experimental methods and mechanical measurements for characterizing the biotribology and biotribocorrosive properties of implantable biomaterials
(2) New emerging biomaterials for implantable clinical applications
(3) New emerging techniques for implantable clinical applications
(4) In silico (bio) tribological and (bio) tribocorrosion models of artificial implants
(5) Biomechanical modeling of the human body for determining the load conditions for artificial joints
(6) Surface modification for reduction of biotribology or biotribocorrosion of biomaterials
(7) Injected nanomaterials with enhanced lubrication properties
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Ruggiero
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biotribology
- biomaterials
- biomechanics
- wear
- lubrication
- mechanical measurements
- in vitro
- in silico
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