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Biomedical Elastomer

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Bioelastomers

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“Biomedical elastomers,” also called “bioelastomers,” should be defined as elastomers that have been engineered to be used, alone or as parts of a complex system, in human or veterinary medicine, to direct the course of any therapeutic or diagnostic procedure by control of interactions with components of living systems. First, they are elastomers, which should retract to at least 1.25-fold original length within 1 min after they are stretched to 1.5-fold original length and then released [1, 2]. They usually have a glass transition temperature (Tg) lower than body temperature, high elongation at break, and completely reversible stress–strain curves. Second, they are “biomaterials” which was defined by Williams [3].

Requirements and Characteristics of Biomedical Elastomers

Elastomers for biomedical application can be traced back to the time when the rubber industry began to develop. Vulcanized natural rubber was used in medical devices soon after the...

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  1. Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 15 N. 3rd Ring Rd E, Beijing, 100029, People’s Republic of China

    Zhang Liqun

  2. Laboratory of Bone Tissue Engineering, Beijing Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Beijing, 100035, China

    Shi Rui

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  1. Center for Fiber and Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Shiro Kobayashi

  2. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

    Klaus Müllen

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Liqun, Z., Rui, S. (2015). Biomedical Elastomer. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29648-2_286

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