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This article is a brief summary of my plenary talk at the World Biomaterials Congress in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, June 1–5, 2012. It highlights the trend to design and develop biomaterial implants and devices that are more compact and more efficient, as they “shrink” from the macro- to the micro- and down to the nano-scale.
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Hoffman, A.S. Biomaterials in the nano-era. Chin. Sci. Bull. 58, 4337–4341 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-013-6090-x
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