TITANIUM NITRIDE AND DIAMOND LIKE CARBON COATINGS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR APPLICATIONS - Advanced Biomaterials: Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications - page 665

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TITANIUM NITRIDE
AND DIAMOND LIKE
CARBON COATINGS
FOR CARDIOVASCULAR
APPLICATIONS

C.V. Muraleedharan and G.S. Bhuvaneshwar
Biomedical Technology Wing,
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology,
Thiruvananthapuram, India

Contents
21.1

Overview 678

21.2 Cardiovascular Devices 678

21.3 Hemocompatibility 680

21.3.1 Water Adsorption 681

21.3.2 Protein Adsorption 681

21.3.3 Blood Cell Interaction 682

21.3.4 Haemostasis and Coagulation 682

21.3.5 Complement Activation 683

21.4 Cardiovascular Biomaterials 683

21.4.1 Heparin and Heparin - Like Coatings 684

21.4.2 Anti - Adherent Coatings 685

21.4.3 Inert Coatings 685

21.5 Diamond Like Carbon 686

21.5.1 Substrates 687

21.5.2 DLC Coating Process 687

21.6 Titanium Nitride 687