MEDICAL DEVICES BASED ON BIOINSPIRED CERAMICS - Advanced Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications - page 351

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MEDICAL DEVICES BASED ON
BIOINSPIRED CERAMICS

Pío González 1 , Julián Martínez-Fernández 2 ,
Antonio R. de Arellano-López 2 , and Mrityunjay Singh 3
1 Departamento de Física Aplicada, ETSII, University of Vigo, Campus
Lagoas - Marcosende, 36310 Vigo, Spain
2 Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada-ICMSE, University of
Seville, Av. Reina Mercedes, Seville, Spain
3 Ohio Aerospace Institute, Ceramics Branch, NASA Glenn Research Center,
Cleveland, Ohio

Contents

11.1 Overview 358

11.2 Introduction 359

11.3 Bioinspired SiC Based Ceramics 360

11.3.1 Processing 360

11.3.2 Microstructure, Phase and Element Distribution 365

11.3.3 Reaction - Formation Mechanisms 370

11.3.4 Mechanical Properties 374

11.3.5 Optimization of Mechanical Properties by the
Biomimetic Structure 381