Manufacturability of biomaterials

Abstract

The increasing use of biomaterials in different areas of modern medicine raises the question of applicable technologies for their processing, as well as the ability to operate and control the parameters of such processes. The manufacturability of biomaterials primarily proceeds determined by their origins, mechanical properties, chemical composition, microstructure, the applicability of various technological and thermomechanical processes, dimensions and the purpose of a finished part. All these analyses require application of the most advanced production methods in order to obtain a safe and reliable element that will replace the natural biological functions of humans. When it is considered that all of these complex functions and requirements need to be fully met, or at least to as great an extent as possible, merely in the initial reviewing process, the manufacturability of biomaterials can appear to be the most crucial mechanical property to be imposed.