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Development of silicon carbide based implants with improved biocompatibility and mechanical properties

Author(s): Katarina Rade (Author), Saša Novak Krmpotič (Supervisor), Spomenka Kobe (Co-Supervisor)

Year: 2012

Type: Doctoral dissertation

With emerging need for orthopaedic implants and prolonged exposure of organism to implants also problems connected to elution of metal ions that in some cases cause adverse reactions in the human body, emerge. The main aim of our work was therefore to investigate the potential of silicon carbide (SiC) to …