MULTIDIRECTIONAL MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF TITANIUM CRANIAL BONE IMPLANT WITH NONLINEARLY FUNCTIONALLY GRADED TPMS

N. V. Viet, W. Zaki, M. El-Rich

Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates

EVALUATING NATURAL CALCIUM CARBONATE AS AN ADDITIVE IN POLYMER BIOCOMPOSITES FOR BONE REGENERATION

J. I. Contreras Raggio^1,2, S. Llano¹, A. K. Aiyangar^2,3, C. Millán⁴, J. F. Vivanco¹

¹Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile; ²Laboratories for Mechanical Systems Engineering, EMPA, Dübendorf, Switzerland; ³Diagnostic, Interventional and Paediatric Radiology, Inselspital University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; ⁴Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile

BRIDGING EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS IN UNDERSTANDING COLD-WATER CORAL STRENGTH

N. Kvashin¹, G. Degli Alessandrini², D. Casari³, M. Peña Fernández⁴, A. Ozel⁴, J. Schwiedrzik³, M. Z. Mughal², I. Kraev², S. Hennige⁵, U. Wolfram¹

¹Institute for Materials Science and Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany; ²Electron Microscopy Suite, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK; ³EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland; ⁴School of Engineering and Physical Science, Heriot-Watt University, UK; ⁵School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION MEASUREMENT OF POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

M. Martin^1,2, P. Dargent², W. Urbach^1,2, N. Taulier², A. Ashofteh^1,2

¹Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, UMR CNRS 8023, Paris, 75005, France; ²Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 7371, Paris, 75006, France

PVA-BASED CARTILAGE MODELS FOR TRIBOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF VISCOSUPPLEMENTATION GELS

M. Confalonieri¹, S. Todros¹, E. Stocco², S. Barbon², S. Spadoni¹, D. Pacchioni³, G. Vecchi³, A. Porzionato², P. G. Pavan¹

¹Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Italy; ²Department of Neurosciences, Section of Human Anatomy, University of Padova, Italy; ³IBSA Farmaceutici Italia S.r.l.

TRIBOLOGICAL PROPERTIES OF CELL-SEEDED SCAFFOLDS

E. Bissacco¹, A. Singh¹, M. Alinezhadfar², S. J. Ferguson¹

¹ETH Zürich, Switzerland; ²EMPA, Tribology & Surface Analytics, Switzerland

MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PCL AND DGL/PEG-BASED FIBROUS BIOMATERIALS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATION

E. Tomaselli¹, B. El Mahi¹, P. Canadas¹, S.-M. Sombris Picot¹, F. Jourdan¹, J. Sohier², C. Cavinato¹

¹LMGC, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France; ²CNRS, Univ. Lyon, Claude Bernard Univ. Lyon 1, LBTI, Lyon, 69007, France

MULTI-MATERIAL AND REGION-SPECIFIC ELECTROSPUN AUXETIC BUNDLES DRIVE STEM CELLS TOWARDS ENTHESIS REGENERATION

A. Sensini^1,2, O. Stamati³, F. Giacomini², B. Lukić³, J. Villanova³, M. Gille⁴, A. Di Lorenzo², H. Proudhon⁴, Z. Tahmasebi Birgani¹, R. Truckenmüller¹, G. Tozzi⁵, M. van Griensven², L. Moroni¹

¹CTR Dept., MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Netherlands, The; ²cBITE Dept., MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Maastricht University, Netherlands, The; ³The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, France; ⁴MINES Paris - PSL, France; ⁵School of Engineering,University of Greenwich, United Kingdom