Title :
Porous silicon as a therapeutic biomaterial
Author_Institution :
Sensors & Electron. Div., DERA, Malvern, Worc., UK
Abstract :
Silicon, the dominant semiconductor, has not been actively developed as a biomaterial, despite the attractiveness of chip-based microsystems for therapeutic applications. There is now both in-vitro and in-vivo evidence that silicon surfaces can be engineered to have bone-bonding potential, and that highly porous silicon can be biodegradable in the human body
Keywords :
biomedical materials; orthopaedics; patient treatment; porous semiconductors; reviews; silicon; Si; biodegradable material; bone-bonding potential; chip-based microsystems; dominant semiconductor; highly porous silicon; human body; in-vitro evidence; in-vivo evidence; silicon surfaces engineering; therapeutic applications; therapeutic biomaterial; Biodegradable materials; Biological materials; Biomedical materials; Biosensors; Crystallization; Humans; In vitro; Micromachining; Nanobioscience; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology, 1st Annual International, Conference On. 2000
Conference_Location :
Lyon
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6603-4
DOI :
10.1109/MMB.2000.893752
