Cellular Materials in Nature and Medicine

Klappentext Describing the structure and mechanics of a wide range of natural materials with a honeycomb- or foam-like structure (e.g. wood, cork, trabecular bone and coral), this book shows how models for cellular materials can be applied in medicine, such as metal foams in orthopedics and porous scaffolds for tissue engineering. Zusammenfassung Describing the structure and mechanics of a wide range of natural materials with a honeycomb- or foam-like structure (e.g. wood! cork! trabecular bone and coral)! this book shows how models for cellular materials can be applied in medicine! such as metal foams in orthopedics and porous scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Auteur

Lorna J. Gibson is the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she has been a faculty member since 1984. Her research interests focus on the mechanics of materials with a cellular structure such as honeycombs and foams and she is co-author, with Mike Ashby, of Cellular Solids: Structure and Properties (2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Texte du rabat

Describes the structure and mechanics of a wide range of cellular materials in botany, zoology, and medicine.

Contenu

Part I. Background: 1. Introduction; 2. The materials of nature; 3. Structure and mechanics of cellular materials; Part II. Cellular Materials in Nature: 4. Honeycomb-like materials in nature; 5. Foam-like materials in nature; 6. Cellular structures in nature; 7. Property charts for natural cellular materials and their uses; Part III. Cellular Materials in Medicine: 8. Cellular solids as biomedical materials; 9. Interaction of biological cells with tissue engineering scaffolds.