Surgical Tools and Medical Devices
This new edition presents information and knowledge on the field of biomedical devices and surgical tools. The authors look at the interactions between nanotechnology, nanomaterials, design, modeling, and tools for surgical and dental applications, as wel
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gical Tools and Medical Devices Second Edition
Surgical Tools and Medical Devices
Waqar Ahmed Mark J. Jackson •
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Surgical Tools and Medical Devices Second Edition
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Editors Waqar Ahmed School of Medicine University of Central Lancashire Preston UK
ISBN 978-3-319-33487-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33489-9
Mark J. Jackson Kansas State University Salina, KS USA
ISBN 978-3-319-33489-9
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Foreword by Sir Harold W. Kroto
The new millennium has seen the birth of a new perspective that conflates research in solid-state physics, biological science as well as materials engineering. The perspective is one that recognizes that future new advances in all these areas will be based on a fundamental understanding of the atomic and molecular infrastructure of materials that has resulted from two centuries of chemistry. Major advances will be achieved when the novel behavior, in particular the quantum mechanical behavior, that nanoscale structures possess, can be controlled and harnessed. To go with this new perspective the conflated fields have acquired a new name— Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (N&N). The promise of developing functional devices at the molecular and atomic scale is now becoming a reality. However, a massive effort is still needed in order to control the fabrication of such novel nanodevices and nanomachines and exploit processes based on quantum mechanical laws. The next decade should see the emergence of new technologies based on nanosystems with not only improved but hopefully also fundamentally new physico-chemical properties produced at reasonable costs. Experimental and theoretical research should lead to industrial applications yielding importa
